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Aiming to shed new light on the nature and extent of European educational pioneering work in Africa, this case study examines the essential differences between the pre-colonial period, the colonial period, and the pre-independence period. It argues that non-formal community and political education were as central to the Christian (here, Presbyterian) missionaries' work as the formal schooling of the young - females as well as males. Although the curricula reflected the missionaries' religious objectives, the evidence suggests an on-going commitment to the personal and social development of pupils and their parents, as well as their society. The Presbyterians encouraged the emergence of an independent Nigerian church and, in their schools, a pride in being Nigerian.

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' ...new insights...useful discussions... ' J.F. Ade. Ajayi, Journal of Religion in Africa , 1997.

'...new insights...useful discussions...' J.F. Ade. Ajayi, Journal of Religion in Africa, 1997.

' new insightsuseful discussions'<br>J.F. Ade. Ajayi, Journal of Religion in Africa, 1997.<br>

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William H. Taylor, Ph.D., teaches Educational Studies in the University of Exeter. He has taught in universities in India, Tanzania and Nigeria. His most recent publication include: The Professional Training of Teachers in the Developing World: Who Controls the Agenda? in K. Watson and C. Modgil, Educational Dilemmas (Cassells, 1996.)

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