Formal and informal education in Okot P' s song of Lawino and song of Ocol
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A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree "Licence en Langue et Littérature Anglaises"
Résumé,
This work set out to examine formal and informal forms of education as reflected in Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol. The work examines how precolonial Acholi, like any other pre-literate society, taught her sons and daughters an education which was achieved orally and through observation and imitation. The young learned informally from their parents and extended family. Ar later stage of their lives, they received instructions of more structured and formal nature, imparted by people not necessarily related, in the context of initiation, religion or ritual. As result of the contact with the west through colonization, a new form of education, which taught individuals who undergo such a system of education, new ideas about themselves and the outside world, was set up.
Those who followed this education were taught to believe in their master' prejudicial theories of white superiority over Blacks. This researcher examined the attitude of those formally "educated" individuals toward others and their cultural practices.
Basing our argument on Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol, this study tested the hypothesis that the common way to get educated is to attend school but much education takes place outside the classrooms.
In order to handle the issue of "Formal and Informal Education", New Historicism guided our discussion.
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