The "Airlift" Generation, Economic Aspiration, and Secondary School Education in Kenya, 1940-1960

Autor/in	Mutongi, Kenda
Titel	The "Airlift" Generation, Economic Aspiration, and Secondary School Education in Kenya, 1940-1960
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 63 (2023) 3, S.378-398 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Mutongi, Kenda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
Schlagwörter	Study Abroad; Educational History; Advantaged; Colonialism; Educational Attainment; Foreign Countries; Universities; College Students; Educational Attitudes; Socioeconomic Status; Political Attitudes; Secondary Education; Academic Aspiration; Social Mobility; Kenya; United States; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Kolonialismus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Ausland; University; Universität; Collegestudent; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Sekundarbereich; Soziale Mobilität; Kenia; USA; Kanada
Abstract	This article argues that the "airlift" language often used to describe the eight hundred Kenyan students who attended US and Canadian universities between 1959 and 1963 is misleading. It assumes that the students were being plucked out of substandard education, yet these youth had received some of the most rigorous education in the world--even though it was colonial education intended to inculcate in them British cultures and mores. The students took this education seriously because they knew it would help improve their economic status as well as that of their families. These elite students were not necessarily concerned with the politics of decolonization or the nation-state, as most studies of colonial elites at the end of empire have tended to claim. They were interested in uplifting their economic status. This uplifting was in and of itself a political act--even though it was not politically motivated. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01