Education for Philippine Pacification: How the U.S. Used Education as Part of its Counterinsurgency Strategy in the Philippines from 1898 to 1909.

摘要

This thesis examines how the United State deliberately used education as part of its counterinsurgency strategy in the Philippines to pacify anti-occupation violence and assimilate the archipelago under American governance. The thesis begins by analyzing American efforts to use education to assimilate and 'civilize' two other racial groups before the Philippine Insurrection: African Americans during the post-Civil War Reconstruction Period and American Indians during the United States' expansion to the Western Territories. The thesis shows how the United States transferred lessons learned with those two populations to the people of the Philippines. It also shows how the U.S. Army and the American civilian government's emphasis on education helped convince Filipinos of American benevolence. The thesis focuses on the Christianized tribes of the archipelago and covers the period of American involvement in the Philippines between 1898 and 1909.