LI Xianjun

Educational Research and Experiment. 2023, (01)

The postcolonial theories have fiercely criticized the hegemony in western culture since 1960s, which has promoted the study of the history of colonial education. The western cultural hegemony in the colonies was achieved through the strong suppression in terms of politic, economy and military forces, the construction of the cultural hegemony, the production of self-technology by the colonized, and the mingling of two cultures. This is also embedded in the history of the colonizer's hegemonic construction of western education. The colonists established the hegemony of western education by firmly grasping the domination of colonial education, and the cooperation of the colonized to colonial education, and the colonial education benefiting to western education in return. Therefore, the use of postcolonial theory in the study of the history of education lies in the following three aspects: to expose and explore the history of colonial educational policy oppressing colonial people, to present the history of colonial people resisting colonial education, and to describe the unequal state of indigenous education under colonial policy.

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