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Publication details for Dr Christopher Davidson
Davidson, Christopher M. (2008). From Traditional to Formal Education in the Lower Arabian Gulf, 1820-1971. History of Education 37(5): 633-643.- Publication type: Journal papers: academic
- ISSN/ISBN: 0046-760X, 1464-5130
- DOI: 10.1080/00467600701430020
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- Durham research online: DRO record
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Abstract
This article charts the development of education in the lower Arabian Gulf from its traditional beginnings in the nineteenth century to the provision of more formal schooling and eventually a ministry of education following Britain's withdrawal from the region in 1971. In order to provide a better understanding of the complexities and relative advances and setbacks to this development, special emphasis is placed on the social, economic and political context of education's trajectory; including the lower Gulf's dependent relations with its Imperial protector and its reliance on foreign educational aid from Kuwait.