Training for Model Citizenship An Ethnography of Civic Education and State-Making in Rwanda /

• Main Author: Sundberg, Molly (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book provides an ethnography of a state-run civic education program based in a local neighborhood in Rwanda. In 2007, the Rwandan government launched a nationwide program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Today, this ideal is pursued throug...