ABSTRACT

All over the world, there are schools that represent a different educational system and a different curriculum than the country these schools are situated in. Swedish Schools in turn are located in different parts of the world. The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyse some aspects of the social life at one of these schools, as well as some aspects of the relationship between the cultural life at the school and surrounding African environment. The school serves as a protected oasis where children can feel at home and cultivate new acquaintances in a small and safe environment. But the Swedish school also becomes the cultural hub for containing the Swedish teachers’ and parents’ value-system and identities, leaving them pretty much unaltered. Despite the end of formal colonial structures, the West still dominates and controls its former colonies discursively as well as economically and politically.

摘要

在世界各地，有些学校代表了与这些学校所在国家不同的教育体系和不同的课程。瑞典的学校又位于世界不同的地方。本研究的主要目的是描述和分析其中一所学校的社会生活的某些方面，以及学校文化生活与周围非洲环境之间关系的某些方面。学校是一个受保护的绿洲，孩子们可以在这里有宾至如归的感觉，并在一个小而安全的环境中结识新朋友。但瑞典学校也成为容纳瑞典教师和父母的价值体系和身份的文化中心，使他们几乎没有改变。尽管正式的殖民结构已经结束，