The "German Children" of Mozambique: Long-Term Legacies of a Socialist Educational Experiment

Autor/in	Muller, Tanja R.
Titel	The "German Children" of Mozambique: Long-Term Legacies of a Socialist Educational Experiment
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 48 (2012) 1, S.57-70 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
DOI	10.1080/03050068.2011.637763
Schlagwörter	Citizenship; Exchange Programs; Peer Groups; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Developing Nations; Identification; Attachment Behavior; Ethics; Political Attitudes; Values; Social Systems; Social Change; Self Concept; Secondary School Students; East Germany; Mozambique + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerschaft; Exchange programme; Exchange program; Exchange programmes; Austauschprogramm; Gleichaltrigengruppe; Peer Group; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Ethik; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Wertbegriff; Social system; Soziales System; Sozialer Wandel; Selbstkonzept; Sekundarschüler; Mosambik
Abstract	State-led education policies that centre on citizenship formation and are based on socialist-inspired values have been found in many newly independent post-colonial regimes. Such policies have led to a number of educational exchange programmes between developing countries and former "Eastern Bloc" countries. This paper looks at an ambitious secondary school education exchange programme between Mozambique and the former German Democratic Republic in the 1980s. Using Yuval-Davis' three analytical categories of social location, identification and emotional attachment, and ethical and political values, the paper shows how an important part of the identity of former participants in a school exchange programme, who returned to Mozambique in 1988, is built around the concept of being "German" and "socialist". These values of socialist solidarity continue to guide many aspects of participants' lives. However, because in contemporary post-structural adjustment capitalist Mozambique, such values are perceived as a hindrance to contemporary notions of citizenship, these values are lived out mainly in relation to their peer group of fellow "German children". (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10