Empire and education in Africa : the shaping of a comparative perspective / edited by Peter Kallaway and Rebecca Swartz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kallaway, Peter, editor.

Swartz, Rebecca (Historian), editor.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

History of schools and schooling ; v. 60.

History of schools and schooling ; v. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Africa--History--19th century.

Education.

Education--Africa--History--20th century.

Education--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Colonies.

History.

Great Britain.

Education--Colonies--Germany--History.

Education--Colonies--France--History.

France.

Germany.

Africa.

Physical Description:

vi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Peter Lang, [2016]

Summary:

"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 colonial education. The collection includes case studies from South Africa, Ethiopia, Madagascar, French West Africa (Afrique Occidentale Française) and Tanzania (then Tanganyika). It will therefore prove invaluable for scholars in the histories of French, British and German colonialism in Africa. The book examines similarities and differences in approaches to education across a broad geographical and chronological framework, with chapters focusing on the period between 1830 and 1950. The chapters highlight some central concerns in writing histories of education that transcend geographic or imperial boundaries. The text addresses the relationship between voluntary societies' role in education provision and state education. The book also deals with 'adapted' education: what kind of education was appropriate to African people or African contexts, and how did this differ across and between colonial contexts? Finally, many of the chapters deal with issues of gender in colonial education, showing how issues of gender were central to education provision in Africa"--Back cover.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781433133473

9781433133480

1433133482

1433133474

OCLC:

947104917

Publisher Number:

99969657577