Malangali School

Africa ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bryant Mumford
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
The Social ◽  
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Improved Methods

Opening ParagraphLast year I wrote a paper on ‘Education and the Social Adjustment of Primitive Peoples to European Culture’. It was an attempt to analyse the problem of the downfall of native races brought into contact with Europe, and to suggest an educational policy which might obviate some of the evils resulting from such contact. The educational policy suggested was based upon two principles, firstly that the school should be built on native tradition and continuous with any system of training youths which existed prior to the advent of the European, and secondly that these institutions should be developed and enriched to meet the needs of the changing environment and to train the pupils to be leaders in social and economic progress. The principles have thus a dual aspect, that of trying to ensure continuity of development from the past by basing the school on native tradition, and that of developing these traditions to meet the demands of improved standards of living and of improved methods of production.

Education and the Social Adjustment of the Primitive Peoples of Africa to European Culture

Africa ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bryant Mumford
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
General Problem ◽  
Tropical Countries ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThe problem of the social adjustment of primitive races to European culture is one which is being and has been faced by a considerable number of officials and settlers in the various tropical countries of the world. Many of those who may read these words will have a far wider experience than the writer. To these men of experience the writer appeals for criticisms and suggestions. The article is written in the spirit of one who is anxious to learn. It is an attempt to think out the part schools should or could play in the general problem of social adjustment. It suggests how, by preserving and developing African tradition and culture in the schools, Africa may be helped to make a happy and satisfactory adjustment to her changed social environment following increasing contacts with Europe and the world. It outlines an experiment to be tried at Iringa, Tanganyika Territory.

scholarly journals Indigenous African Education for Socio- Economic Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-316
Author(s):  
Moses Wandera
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
World View ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The Social ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Available Information

Education in Africa has been in existence since time immemorial. This study sought to examine the activities of Lantana in Benin on their specialised training, Dogon of Mali in their world view, Futo Toro of Senegal in their various trades, Poro of Sierra Leone in the training of the youth, Takensi of Ghana in their social order and the Akan of Ghana. Also examined are the activities of the Chamba and Yoruba of Nigeria in their adult centred training and forecasting of the future respectively. The Chagga of Tanzania and the Abakwayaare were also examined on their initiative plays and economic activities. The paper also studied the Ndembu of Zambia on the past analysis and the activities of the Mijikenda of Kenya among other Kenyan tribes. The study used the theoretical framework of Emile Durkheim on the social and moral order, while the design of the study was on content analysis of available information and expectations. The study recommends positive approaches in the indigenouseducation that can be adapted, mainly for Kenya in its desire to achieve Vision 2030. However, further research should be done on specific values, foods, attitudes and the rule of law, how achieve social, political and economic progress in African nations and especially how the current economic integration blocks have followed the same pattern of the communities and their values.

The Waswahili: The social history of an ethnic group

Africa ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Arens
Keyword(s):  
Characteristic Feature ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Social History ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
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Opening ParagraphDefinitional questions, such as ‘Who are the Waswahili’, posed by Eastman (1971) in this journal, appear to have been of little interest in the past, as many social anthropologists either ignored the problem or assumed that the answers were self-evident. However, those who have confronted this task have shown that simplicity and self-evidence is rarely a characteristic feature of the inquiry. Even classic ethnographic cases of supposed culturally homogeneous and distinct tribal groups are at present being re-examined in light of the renewed interest in this topic (cf. Helm, 1968). Whether or not the Nuer are the Dinka, or vice versa, it has been minimally established that such questions are legitimate and even fruitful in sharpening our analytical approach to subject populations.

scholarly journals Balkan kao vremenska odrednica – Diskurs balkanizma u srpskoj arheologiji

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 539
Author(s):  
Staša Babić ◽  
Zorica Kuzmanović
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Basic Framework ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The idea of universal linear course of time is an important element of the basic framework of reference of the archaeological research into the past. However, even the fundamental theoretical premises of the discipline, such as the conceptualization of time, may be changed and differently interpreted, depending upon the social and cultural context of research. The history of archaeology in Serbia testifies that, contrary to the generally implicit linear course of time, the regional past is seen as a series of repetitions, stagnations and detours, implying the assumption of a different, a-historical course of time in the Balkans. This narrative is especially noticeable in the works dealing with the role of the Classical Greek-Roman civilization in the Balkan past. The ambivalence of the leading narratives in Serbian archaeology towards the presumed sources of the European culture corresponds to the images of the Balkans identified by M. Todorova as the discourse of Balkanism.

Kinship and Lineage among the Yoruba

Africa ◽  
1955 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Schwab
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Analytic Description ◽  
The Past ◽  
Kinship System ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Religious Systems ◽  
Traditional Patterns ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThis paper presents an analytic description of the principles underlying the traditional kinship system of the Yoruba people of Western Nigeria in the community of Oshogbo. Aggregation into large-scale urban-like communities which are characterized by the close interdependence of their political constitution and their economic and religious systems is a striking feature of Yoruba social organization. In these communities we find that the behaviour of individuals to one another, in the past at least, was very largely regulated on the basis of kinship and it would be accurate, I think, to state that among the Yoruba kinship was the usual means of articulation between the various elements of the social organization. Today, under the influence of systematic and far-reaching contact with the West, new patterns of behaviour are beginning to or have already superseded the old. New values and attitudes have intruded and there is an increased fluidity in social norms. In the present generation the bonds of kinship have been greatly weakened as a foundation for social organization and as a mechanism for co-ordinating and regulating social behaviour. Yoruba society is indeed transitional in the sense that the old is in the process of disintegration and new forms are rapidly emerging. However, it is the internal and traditional patterns that determine the particular form and direction of the effects which the external alien forces of change exert. Consequently, in this paper, we shall place primary emphasis on the principles of kinship as they emerged as regulative factors in the traditional life of the Yoruba in the belief that, apart from purely ethnographic value, they will provide us with a better understanding of the manifold changes that have become apparent.

scholarly journals Industrial Relations in Austria

1970 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Mire
Keyword(s):  
Full Employment ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
The Social ◽  
Major Interest ◽  
Incomes Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Industrialised Countries

Austria's economic progress during the last twenty years has been most impressive, comparing favourably with other industrialised countries. Major credit is ascribed to the social partnership between labour and management, which extends to all areas of social and economic concern. Its most significant manifestation has been the adoption, in 1957, of an incomes policy, of voluntary wage and price restraint. The results have been: significant improvements in the standards of living; full employment; modest inflation; and an enviable record of industrial peace. The social partnership is supported by an understanding with the government, which allows the two major interest groups considerable freedom to carry out their commitments to wage and price restraint.

Adaptation and Integration in the Social System of Temne Immigrants in Freetown

Africa ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Banton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social System ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Tribal People ◽  
The Past ◽  
Successful Adaptation ◽  
The Social ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThis paper presents a study of what is sometimes called detribalization—the process by which tribal people, especially those who have left their homeland and obtained paid employment in towns, are separated from the social and cultural heritage of their tribe. But this is too superficial a statement of the matter. It is necessary to define the problem in sociological terms before attempting a systematic analysis of the process. Accordingly I shall start by describing the system of social relations prevailing among Temne in Freetown, and shall examine the forces which, over the past fifty years, have influenced its character. At the beginning of this period relationships among the Temne immigrants appear to have been relatively close and stable, but, from the 1920's, disintegrative tendencies became progressively more marked until, at the end of the 1930's, the young men carried out a series of swift changes which resulted in a more successful adaptation of the system and its closer integration.

The social adjustment of newcomers in secondary school

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-176
Author(s):  
Jim Elliott ◽  
Keith Punch
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
The Social

Dowagers, Debs, Nuns and Babies: The Politics of Nostalgia and the Older Woman in the British Sunday Night Television Serial

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estella Tincknell
Keyword(s):  
Older Women ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Mature Female ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Popular Television

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011–12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010–) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012–), has appeared to consolidate the recent resurgence of the period drama during the 1990s and 2000s, as well as reassembling something like a mass audience for woman-centred realist narratives at a time when the fracturing and disassembling of such audiences seemed axiomatic. While ostensibly different in content, style and focus, the two programmes share a number of distinctive features, including a range of mature female characters who are sufficiently well drawn and socially diverse as to offer a profoundly pleasurable experience for the female viewer seeking representations of aging femininity that go beyond the sexualised body of the ‘successful ager’. Equally importantly, these two programmes present compelling examples of the ‘conjunctural text’, which appears at a moment of intense political polarisation, marking struggles over consent to a contemporary political position by re-presenting the past. Because both programmes foreground older women as crucial figures in their respective communities, but offer very different versions of the social role and ideological positioning that this entails, the underlying politics of such nostalgia becomes apparent. A critical analysis of these two versions of Britain's past thus highlights the ideological investments involved in period drama and the extent to which this ‘cosy’ genre may legitimate or challenge contemporary political claims.

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