Empire and education in Africa : the shaping of a comparative perspective /

"Empire and Education in Africa brings together a rich body of scholarship on the history of education in colonial Africa. It provides a unique contribution to the historiography of education in different African countries and a useful point of entry for scholars new to the field of African col...

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Other Authors: Kallaway, Peter (Editor), Swartz, Rebecca (Historian) (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Peter Lang, [2016]
Series:History of schools and schooling ; v. 60.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz
  • "Lessons" from the Subcontinent : Indian Dynamics in British Africa / Tim Allender
  • Industrial Education in Natal : The British Imperial Context, 1830-1860 / Rebecca Swartz
  • Shaping Colonial Subjects through Government Education : Policy, Implementation and Reception at the Cape of Good Hope, 1839-1862 / Helen Ludlow
  • "A Test of Civilisation"? : Shakespeare, the Anglican Church and Mission Education in Victorian Grahamstown / Brian Willan
  • The role of Philanthropic Foundations in Shaping South African Colonial Educational Policy in the Early Twentieth Century / Christina Cappy
  • Charles Templeman Loram : A Life in Education and Race Relations in South Africa and North America / Richard Glotzer
  • Mass Education and the Gendered Politics of "Development" in Apartheid South Africa and Late Colonial British Africa / Meghan Healy-Clancy
  • German Lutheran Missions, German Anthropology and Science in African Colonial Education / Peter Kallaway
  • Tracking Assimilation and Adaptation through School Exercise Books from Afrique Occidentale Française in the early twentieth century / Elsie Rockwell
  • Protestant and French Colonial Literacies in Madagascar in the Early Twentieth Century / Ellen Vea Rosnes
  • Independence and Influence : Empress Mänän School
  • an Ethio-French Girls' School in 1930s Ethiopia / Pierre Guidi.