The effects of French colonial invasion on the education sector in the Amazigh tribes, The Mediterranean Atlas tribes as a case study

Abstract

The Mediterranean Atlas zone was given a great importance, especially in the French expansion plan in Morocco because of its strategic significance. The policy of colonial expansion focused on the establishment of many barracks and military bases in mountain areas to watch any resistants’ movements so that they could stop them and finish them. On of the social sectors which the French protectorate authorities concentrated on the colonize those resisting tribes was the education sector, knowing that the colonial educational policy did not intend to teach children appropriately for the country’s developement, but ensure sufficient number of servents as if the base of that educational policy was the spread of separation and instilling roots of conflicts between the Arabic race and Amazigh race which both from Moroccan society