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The creation of a new school system in the Philippines in1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior,following its politics of violencewith benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of recovery—in which schooling was central and natives were forced to accept empire through education—might have shown how Americans couldbe good occupiers, but it also created projects of Orientalist racial management: Filipinos had to be educated and civilized, while the Japanese had to be reeducated and “de-civilized.”

In Campaigns of Knowledge, Malini Schueller contrapuntally reads state-sanctioned proclamations, educational agendas, and school textbooks alongside political cartoons, novels, short stories, and films to demonstrate how the U.S. tutelary project was rerouted, appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted. In doing so, she highlights how schooling was conceiv

Campaigns of Knowledge

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      Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
      Published 1 November 2019
      ISBN-13 9781439918562
      978-1439918562
      ISBN-10 1439918562
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      Educational strategies and policy History of education

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The creation of a new school system in the Philippines in1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior,following its politics of violencewith benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of recovery—in which schooling was central and natives were forced to accept empire through education—might have shown how Americans couldbe good occupiers, but it also created projects of Orientalist racial management: Filipinos had to be educated and civilized, while the Japanese had to be reeducated and “de-civilized.”

      In Campaigns of Knowledge, Malini Schueller contrapuntally reads state-sanctioned proclamations, educational agendas, and school textbooks alongside political cartoons, novels, short stories, and films to demonstrate how the U.S. tutelary project was rerouted, appropriated, reinterpreted, and resisted. In doing so, she highlights how schooling was conceiv

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