western education

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The introduction of Western education into the rest of the world occurred to a large degree through imperialism. This affected the way that Western education was absorbed and influenced by the world.{{Cite web |title=Colonial Education and Anticolonial Struggles |url=https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34437/chapter-abstract/292238793?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=2024-09-04 |website=academic.oup.com}}

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{{See also|History of education in Japan#Meiji period|Eastward spread of Western learning}}

In China, as reformers sought to grapple with the foreign domination of the late 19th century, they came to a conclusion of re-ordering Chinese society through a process of self-strengthening, which included taking ideas from the West.{{Cite journal |last=Schulte |first=Barbara |date=2012 |title=Between admiration and transformation : paths of Western education into early twentieth century China |url=https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/between-admiration-and-transformation-paths-of-western-education- |journal=COMPARATIV. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=49–75 |issn=0940-3566}}

Even before the Edo period, Japan had established significant contact with Western knowledge through Rangaku (Dutch Learning). While maintaining its isolationist sakoku policy, Japan permitted limited trade with the Dutch East India Company at Dejima, Nagasaki. This unique arrangement allowed Japanese scholars to study Western medicine, astronomy, mathematics, and other sciences through Dutch books and interactions with Dutch traders. Rangaku scholars like Sugita Genpaku and Maeno Ryōtaku made groundbreaking translations of Dutch medical texts, including the influential "Kaitai Shinsho" (New Book of Anatomy), which introduced Western medical knowledge to Japan. This early exposure to Western learning through the Dutch connection laid an important foundation for Japan's later modernization efforts during the Meiji era, when Japan sought to further modernize itself by learning from the West. It sent scholars and diplomats to Western countries to learn from their education systems.{{Cite journal |last=Mayo |first=Marlene J. |date=1973 |title=The Western Education of Kume Kunitake, 1871-6 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2383933 |journal=Monumenta Nipponica |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=3–67 |doi=10.2307/2383933 |jstor=2383933 |issn=0027-0741|url-access=subscription }}

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The British colonised India starting in the late 18th century, and began to impose Western education by the early 19th century. They saw this as a highly positive step, and felt that it was a way to civilise the people.{{Cite book |last=Seth |first=Sanjay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QU9glkC4ceMC&pg=PA1 |title=Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India |date=2007-08-29 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-4105-5 |language=en}} Native kingdoms also sometimes sought such education to understand how to deal with the British threat.{{Cite news |date=2024-09-22 |title=What a false quote about Bengal reveals about our past |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/what-a-false-quote-about-bengal-reveals-about-our-past-101727021145362.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240924072503/https://www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/what-a-false-quote-about-bengal-reveals-about-our-past-101727021145362.html |archive-date=2024-09-24 |access-date=2024-12-25 |work=Hindustan Times |language=en-us}}

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{{See also|East-west cultural debate}}

Chinese/Eastern education has been contrasted with Western education on the basis of aiming to encourage individuals to acquire the discipline necessary to learn and therefore provide honor to their families.{{Cite web |author=Staff Reports |date=2017-10-10 |title=The Differences Between Eastern and Western Education |url=https://www.borgenmagazine.com/eastern-and-western-education-differences/ |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=BORGEN |language=en-US}}

{{See also|Education in Islam}}

Since the colonial era, Muslim leaders have decried Western education as failing to instill moral values, with its secular nature also seen as problematic.{{Cite journal |last=Cook |first=Bradley J. |date=1999-05-01 |title=Islamic Versus Western Conceptions of Education: Reflections on Egypt |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1003808525407 |journal=International Review of Education |language=en |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=339–358 |doi=10.1023/A:1003808525407 |bibcode=1999IREdu..45..339C |issn=1573-0638|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Morgan |first1=William R. |last2=Armer |first2=J. Michael |date=1988 |title=Islamic and Western Educational Accommodation in a West African Society: A Cohort-Comparison Analysis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095854 |journal=American Sociological Review |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=634–639 |doi=10.2307/2095854 |jstor=2095854 |issn=0003-1224|url-access=subscription }}

• English-medium education
• The History of Western Education
• Western values

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