Suchergebnisse

Late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham and Mandate Lebanon were characterized by an exceptionally dense concentration of diverse educational institutions. Research on education in this region during the late 19th and early 20th centuries has hitherto focused on individual institutions or movements. This volume challenges the established narrative and emphasizes the entanglements of individuals, concepts, and practices. Stemming from an international workshop held at the Orient-Institut Beirut in April 2012, the studies on local and foreign schools collected in this volume illuminate the manifold debates that entwined students, teachers, and the public over how to create a modern Arab society and the role education could play within that endeavor.

This report contains educational statistics in respect of Indians and covers the whole range of educational institutions from pre-primary to tertiary level, except for certain departmental and private colleges and educational training centres such as agricultural and forestry colleges, mining training centres, the Trade School for Adults, the South African Police College, the Merchant Navy Academy and other colleges giving specialised in-service training