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

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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Itorero Today and Yesterday: Making and Remaking Rwanda
  • 3. Rwanda and Rwandans in the Post-Genocide Political Imaginary
  • 4. Local Voices on Rwanda and Rwandans
  • 5. Model Citizens in the Making: Government as Designed
  • 6. “Manufacturing” Model Citizens: Governing in Everyday Encounters
  • 7. Securing Rwanda: A Fearful Civic Duty
  • 8. Realizing the Development Vision 2020
  • 9. Searching for the Prerequisites of Acceptance. .

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