Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9783110623543-001
Marcia C. Schenck, Immanuel R. Harisch, Anne Dietrich, E. Burton
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9783110623543-014
Alexandra Piepiorka, Eduardo F. Buanaissa
In the socialist world, international contacts between national education systems usually developed in the context of bilateral agreements on cooperation and friendship. This was also the case for the People’s Republic of Mozambique (PRM) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Nevertheless, in publications by contemporary actors, the starting point of East German and Mozambican cooperation in education is dated back to the years before Mozambican independence, when several GDR citizens began to work as teachers in underground schools run by the Mozambican liberation movement Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO) in the late 1960s.1 In historiographic representation on behalf of the GDR, this early cooperation in education during the liberation struggle against Portugal is depicted as the cornerstone for further cooperation between the two countries after Mozambican independence in 1975.2 In the 1970s and 1980s a rapidly growing number of East German educational advisors and educators departed to Maputo, with the mission to contribute to the reconstruction of a postcolonial and socialist education system in Mozambique.3 Likewise, Mozambican students entered the GDR to continue their secondary education at the “School of Friendship”4 or to undergo vocational training,5 while
在社会主义世界,国家教育系统之间的国际联系通常是在双边合作和友好协定的背景下发展起来的。莫桑比克人民共和国(莫桑比克人民共和国)和德意志民主共和国(德意志民主共和国)也是如此。然而,在当代演员的出版物中,东德和莫桑比克在教育方面合作的起点可以追溯到莫桑比克独立前的几年,当时几名民主德国公民在20世纪60年代末开始在莫桑比克解放运动解放运动阵线(FRELIMO)开办的地下学校担任教师在代表德意志民主共和国的历史研究中,这种早期的教育合作被描述为1975年莫桑比克独立后两国进一步合作的基石。在20世纪70年代和80年代,越来越多的东德教育顾问和教育家前往马普托。同样,莫桑比克学生进入民主德国,在“友谊学校”(School of Friendship)继续他们的中等教育(secondary education)或接受职业培训(vocational training)
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9783110623543-006
G. Burgess
In many ways we were naïve about the effects of our intervention in Third World countries. Our intelligence-gathering skills, honed by the experience of the Second World War and the Cold War,were transferred through our well-trained liaison officers and specialists. Prompt-ed by their diligence, the security service in Zanzibar reached ridiculous dimensions. Relative to the size of the population, it was soon far bigger than our own, and it rapidly acquired a dynamic of its own over which we had no more influence.³ ⁶
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9783110623543-009
Marcia C. Schenck, Francisca Raposo
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9783110623543-004
Erich Angermann
On January 30, 1961, Werner Raase’s term of office ended abruptly. Raase had served as the first director of the Institut für Ausländerstudium (Institute for Foreign Students), the most recent institution added to the East German trade union college, the Hochschule der Deutschen Gewerkschaften “Fritz Heckert” in Bernau near Berlin. Only one day earlier, the responsible federal executive of the central trade union federation which ran the college, the Freie Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (FDGB), had decided to dismiss four persons: Raase and his deputy, a teacher and an interpreter.2 The FDGB executive criticized not only the theoretical and didactic shortcomings in the teaching of state-socialist Marxism-Leninism, for which Raase was held responsible. The decision to dismiss him was also based on an intervention by 17 African students, whose request for a talk led high-ranked members of the Abteilung Internationale Verbindungen (International Relations Department) of the federal executive to travel to Bernau.3 The accusations subsequently collected were serious. In addition to the criticism of insufficient “political leadership” of the institute’s directorate,4 the second major point of critique were racist statements made by Raase and other teachers. For example,
1961年1月30日,维尔纳·拉斯的任期突然结束。Raase曾担任Institut f r Ausländerstudium(外国学生研究所)的首任主任,该研究所是位于柏林附近伯瑙的东德工会学院“弗里茨·赫克特”(Fritz Heckert)的最新机构。就在一天前,负责管理这所大学的中央工会联合会——自由德国工会联合会(FDGB)的联邦主管决定解雇四个人:Raase和他的副手、一名教师和一名翻译FDGB的执行人员不仅批评了国家社会主义马克思列宁主义教学中的理论和教学缺陷,而Raase对此负有责任。开除他的决定也是基于17名非洲学生的干预,他们要求进行一次谈话,导致联邦行政部门国际关系司的高级成员前往伯瑙。随后收集的指控是严重的。除了对学院董事会“政治领导”不足的批评外,第二个主要批评点是Raase和其他教师的种族主义言论。例如,
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1515/9783110623543-003
Christian Alvarado
Situated above the signatures of the newly-minted executive committee, this phrase concludes the first official record of correspondence of the Kenya Students Union (KSU) in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). At the core of this phrase was a request: to retain, and in some ways expand, the nature of their status as Kenyan students studying abroad while also articulating a more robust and charged vision of the significance of their education to the nationbuilding program at home. Dated October 1, 1964, the letter was addressed to none other than Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta himself. In naming harambee (a Kiswahili term typically translated as “pull[ing] together”) the authors invoked the official rhetoric of the nascent Kenyatta regime, which had the year prior began using the term as “an appeal not only for self-help but for national unity as well.”3 The purpose of the KSU’s letter was to notify the independent Kenyan government, only a year and some months old at this point, of the formation of a new students’ union whose membership was open to all Kenyans studying in the GDR. The KSU was not the first students’ union to service Kenyans studying in East Germany. It is unclear in the historical record exactly when and how the Kenyan students whose lives this chapter explores had arrived in their respective
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