Roume’s educational policy marked a departure from Senegal’s assimilationist model

Evidence

Roume’s repeated axiom that metropolitan curriculum had to be “adapted” to the special needs of the African peoples. This notion marked a conscious departure from the founding principles of the only French schools extant at the time of the creation of the Government General, those of the Four Communes in Senegal, which were based upon assimilation. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 256

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the distinction between assimilationist and ‘adapted’ education in French colonial policy.