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Connecting histories of education : transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post-)colonial education / edited by Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Kate Rousmaniere.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Transnational education.
- Postcolonialism.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The history of education in the modern world is a history of transnational and cross-cultural influence. This collection explores those influences in (post) colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts. The authors emphasize how local actors constructed their own adaptation of colonialism, identity, and autonomy, creating a multi-centric and entangled history of modern education. In both formal as well as informal aspects, they demonstrate that transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation, re-contextualization,
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction - Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post-)Colonial Education; Part I - Historiographical Reflections; Chapter 1 - History of Education beyond the Nation? Trends in Historical and Educational Scholarship; Chapter 2 - Towards a Global History of Education: Alternative Strategies; Chapter 3 - Writing Histories of Congolese Colonial and Post-Colonial Education: A Historiographical View from Belgium
- Chapter 4 - Range and Limits of the Countryside Schooling Historiography in Latin America (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries): Some ReflectionsPart II - Travelling Concepts; Chapter 5 - A Transcultural Transaction: William Carey's Baptist Mission, the Monitorial Method and the Bengali Renaissance; Chapter 6 - A Colonial Experiment in Education: Madras, 1789-1796; Part III - Indigenous Education and Resistance; Chapter 7 - A New Education for 'Young India': Exploring Nai Talim from the Perspective of a Connected History
- Chapter 8 - Colonial Education and Saami Resistance in Early Modern SwedenChapter 9 - Constructive Orientalism: Debates on Languages and Educational Policies in Colonial India, 1830-1880; Part IV - Women's Education; Chapter 10 - Raden Ajeng Kartini and Cultural Nationalism in Java; Chapter 11 - Women's Education through Women's Eyes: Literary Articulations in Colonial Western India; Chapter 12 - Connecting Literature and History of Education: Analysing the Educative Fiction of Jean Webster and Lila Majumdar Transculturally and Connotatively
- Chapter 13 - Transcending the Centre-Periphery Paradigm: Loreto Teaching in India, 1842-2010Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781782382676
- 1782382674
- OCLC:
- 877870698
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