Colonial schools imposed age-graded time alien to traditional education

Evidence

The idea of a student being ‘too old’ to be in class X or Y, unthinkable in a traditional Muslim school, was an unselfconscious axiom of the colonial Western-style school. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 498

Categorization

• XREF: This imposed temporal order echoes how bureaucratic rationality (‘calendrical thinking’ as in White Noise’s terror of time, and Foucault’s disciplinary time) shapes the modern subject — connects to the Islamophobia module’s biopolitics and bureaucratic-rationality scaffolding. — connects to: Colonial education reproduced the imperial curriculum and deferred indigenization.; Nineteenth-century schools scheduled activities down to four-minute increments — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 230; South African schooling divides into Foundation, Intermediate, and Senior phases — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 172 (+1 more)

Related

• Nineteenth-century schools scheduled activities down to four-minute increments (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Nineteenth-century schools scheduled activities down to four-minute increments #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 230