EDUC 229 Lecture Notes - Augusto Boal, Paulo Freire

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Education
• Course: EDUC 229
• Professor: J A Q U E L I N E M O S S E L S O N

Document Summary

The control of one people by another --- can be political, economic and cultural. Europe gained colonies by establishing trading stations----not by acquiring territory. The europeans started migrating to the colonies: missionaries set up schools, european governments started sending in military all with the aim of protecting their economic interests both from local resistance and the threat from other colonizing powers. The white man"s burden: education and cultural superiority. Progress made during the industrial revolution reinforced european views of cultural superiority: this attitude is a reflection of racism the belief that one race is superior to others. Europeans framed imperialism as their moral responsibility and thus justified altering the way of life on every continent in our world. A way of thinking about the past. Wasn"t just one direction but affected the colonizer and the colonized. The affects of colonialism didn"t end when colonization ended. Starts to ask questions about what has changed.