Libyan Schools: Italian Colonial Schools -- Gender
Figure 1.--One common theme in Muslim countries is that during the colonial period Muslim parents were hesitant to send cvhildren to the schools run by Europeans. This was especially true of the girls. Parents kept a tighter contol of girkls to begin with, but were especailly uneasy about entrusting their girls to European-run schools. Given Italian brutality in Libya , we assume that this would have been especiually pronounced, but have no actual data to confirm this. We do notice one school where was girl students. How commin this was, we just do not know. They all look very young. They look like just the first age group. So if they are students, then there must be more girls of an older age. We know the girls were photographed at school. But we don'y know for sure that they are students or how voluntary thei presenve was.
One common theme in Muslim countries is that during the colonial period Muslim parents were hesitant to send cvhildren to the schools run by Europeans. This was especially true of the girls. Parents kept a tighter contol of girkls to begin with, but were especailly uneasy about entrusting their girls to European-run schools. Given Italian brutality in Libya , we assume that this would have been especiually pronounced, but have no actual data to confirm this. We do notice one school where was girl students. How commin this was, we just do not know. They all look very young. They look like just the first age group. So if they are students, then there must be more girls of an older age. We know the girls were photographed at school. But we don'y know for sure that they are students or how voluntary thei presenve was.
