The Importance of Culture and Civilization in Malek Bennabi’s Educational Project: The Algerian Case

Abstract

According to the Algerian thinker Malek Bennabi, education is a purely social process that starts with the human being birth and ends with her/his death. It is continual, teaching the individual life’s alphabet. Given the preoccupation of education with the transfer of values, traditions and human systems, from generation to generation, it becomes closely linked with important concepts such as culture and civilization. This paper attempts to identify the main educational issues that Malek Bennabi tackled, considering two crucial components that built his educational project, namely culture and civilization.