Campaigns of Knowledge - 9781439918562

Campaigns of KnowledgeU.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan\nAuthor(s): Malini Johar Schueller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439918562, 978-1439918562\nSynopsis\nThe creation of a new school system in the Philippines in1898 and educational reforms in occupied Japan, both with stated goals of democratization, speaks to a singular vision of America as savior,following its politics of violencewith benevolent recuperation. The pedagogy of recovery-in which schooling was central and natives were forced to accept empire through education-might have shown how Americans couldbe good occupiers, but it also created projects of Orientalist racial management: Filipinos had to be educated and civilized, while the Japanese had to be reeducated and de-civilized.\n\nIn Campaigns of Knowledge, Malini Schueller contrapuntally reads state-sanctioned proclamations, educa.