The Teacher as Anti-Hero
A talk by听Professor Nicholas Harrison听FBA, King鈥檚 College London
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Friday 24 November, 5:15 till 7pm
Followed by drinks
听All welcome!
Seminar room 5, Cripps Building, Magdalene College 海角社区, and online
Zoom: Meeting ID: 910 3817 9314
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Nicholas Harrison鈥檚 book听Our Civilizing Mission: The Lessons of Colonial Education听(Liverpool, 2019) asks听what can be learned from treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism, but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education. This talk will revisit some of its key themes, exploring the story of Mouloud听Feraoun (and assuming no familiarity with his work). He was a successful novelist who remained in Algeria and continued both to write and to work as a teacher and educationalist throughout the war of independence. The aim of the talk is to cast light on that decision, which placed Feraoun鈥檚 life at risk both from Algerian nationalists and from the French pro-colonial Right. His commitment to education was, in its way, heroic, but it was a paradoxical heroism, at once political and apolitical.
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Nick Harrison has edited three collections of essays, including听Gillo Pontecorvo鈥檚 Battle of Algiers听(2007), and written two other books:听Circles of Censorship听(1995), and听Postcolonial Criticism: History, Theory and the Work of Fiction听(2003).
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