American Colonial Education Policy and Filipino Labour Migration to the US (1900-1935)

Autor/in	Maca, Mark
Titel	American Colonial Education Policy and Filipino Labour Migration to the US (1900-1935)
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 37 (2017) 3, S.310-328 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0218-8791
DOI	10.1080/02188791.2017.1339016
Schlagwörter	Foreign Policy; Educational Policy; Educational History; Public Education; Mass Instruction; Armed Forces; Government Employees; Socioeconomic Influences; Foreign Countries; Governance; Advantaged; Social Structure; Educational Attainment; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Vocational Education; Language of Instruction; Migration; Textbook Content; Migrant Workers; Philippines; Hawaii + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Außenpolitik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Öffentliche Erziehung; Military; Militär; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Ausland; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Sozialstruktur; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Lehrbuchtext; Wanderarbeiter; Philippinen
Abstract	Public mass schooling was the major instrument used by the Americans in the performance of their mission to "civilize" Filipinos. Free primary education was implemented right after the islands' annexation in 1899 and was a critical component (alongside armed force) of the programme for their "pacification". For the elite, education formed a route into collaborative involvement in the management of the colonial state. By the second decade of colonization, Filipinos were managing the civil service, participating in elected institutions and installed as mayors and governors. Like that of the Spanish, American colonial governance was profoundly reliant on the collaboration of members of the "haciendero" class, and thus implicated in the maintenance of long-established social and political hierarchies. But what did the maintenance of that "status quo" imply for ordinary Filipinos, now increasingly educated and literate in the language of the colonial power? Specifically, to what extent did this combination of socio-economic "stasis" and educational progress contribute to spurring early labour migration? This article investigates how far labour migration was seen to be, or functioned as, a mechanism for maintaining social and political stability in the American colonial period. It examines how this phenomenon was related to the free and English-based mass education programme undertaken out of an urge to fulfill what Kipling--writing of the American colonial enterprise--termed "the White Man's Burden". (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01