This book explores the phenomena of school tours and tourism. It explores tensions of authenticity and artificiality in the school site being both a place of community learning and a spectacle for tourism consumption.
This book explores the phenomena of school tours and tourism. It explores tensions of authenticity and artificiality in the school site being both a place of community learning and a spectacle for tourism consumption.
Kathleen Smithers is a Lecturer in the School of Education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. Her main research interests are in sociology of education, philanthropy in education, and in precarity in higher education.
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Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Image(s) of Africa Education challenges A note on terminology Introduction to the research Structure of the book Chapter 2 HOW DOES TOURISM COME TO BE IN A SCHOOL? Economic challenges: A brief history Education challenges: A system in crisis Tourism in Zimbabwe Summary Chapter 3 INTRODUCING MATOPO SCHOOL Matopo School Education Tours Adventure Company Shumba Safaris The funding arrangement My relationship to the school Summary Chapter 4 THE WHITE SAVIOUR COMPLEX Development Developmentourism and education: problems of naming The white saviour complex Dominant images of Majority World children Summary Chapter 5 BUILDING THE SET AND PRODUCING 'AFRICA' Set design: An image of Africa Managing conflicting roles of the school Use of children because teachers tell lies Summary Chapter 6: THE STARRING ROLE: POOR-BUT-HAPPY CHILDREN Playing a character: Poor-but-happy children "They are in love with the children" Tourist-Visitor-Friend Summary Chapter 7 BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL: THE WHITE SAVIOUR AS PROTAGONIST The protagonist: The white saviour Complexities of the white saviour in action The role I was assigned The tension of external funders The white saviour and the local community Summary Chapter 8 CONCLUSION
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Image(s) of Africa Education challenges A note on terminology Introduction to the research Structure of the book Chapter 2 HOW DOES TOURISM COME TO BE IN A SCHOOL? Economic challenges: A brief history Education challenges: A system in crisis Tourism in Zimbabwe Summary Chapter 3 INTRODUCING MATOPO SCHOOL Matopo School Education Tours Adventure Company Shumba Safaris The funding arrangement My relationship to the school Summary Chapter 4 THE WHITE SAVIOUR COMPLEX Development Developmentourism and education: problems of naming The white saviour complex Dominant images of Majority World children Summary Chapter 5 BUILDING THE SET AND PRODUCING 'AFRICA' Set design: An image of Africa Managing conflicting roles of the school Use of children because teachers tell lies Summary Chapter 6: THE STARRING ROLE: POOR-BUT-HAPPY CHILDREN Playing a character: Poor-but-happy children "They are in love with the children" Tourist-Visitor-Friend Summary Chapter 7 BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL: THE WHITE SAVIOUR AS PROTAGONIST The protagonist: The white saviour Complexities of the white saviour in action The role I was assigned The tension of external funders The white saviour and the local community Summary Chapter 8 CONCLUSION
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