1st Edition
Benefits Bestowed? Education and British Imperialism
This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with:
- The myths and visions of imperialism;
- The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared;
- The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing imperial images;
- The changing concept of imperialism as reflected in the emphases of educational literature
- The different perceptions of imperialism in the various social and ethnic strata of metropolitan and overseas communities and education systems
- The assimiliation, adaptation and rejection of metropolitan educational models
- The issue of imperial education as enlightenment, hegemony and control.
The book features chapters by educationalists, historians and sociologists on education as a cornerstone in the construction of imperial control.
Introduction: Imperialism, History and Education J A Mangan 1 Imperialism in the Study and Teaching of History Richard Aldrich 2 English Elementary Education and the Growth of the Imperial Ideal: 1880-1914 Pamela Horn 3 The Nineteenth-Century English Preparatory School: cradle and crèche of Empire? Donald Leinster-Mackay 4 Imperialism and the Irish National School System John Coolahan 5 The Newfoundland School Society 1823-55: Missionary Enterprise or Cultural Imperalism? W P McCann 6 Imperialism, Patriotism and Kiwi primary schooling between the Wars R Openshaw 7 Socialisation, imperialism and war: Ideology and Ethnicity in Australian corporate schools 1880-1918 Geoffrey Sherington and Mark Connellan 8 Race, Gender and Imperialism: A Century of Black Girls’ Education in South Africa Deborah Gaitskell 9 Public-School Freemasonry in the Empire: ‘Mafia of the Mediocre’? Paul J Rich 10 Education, Emigration and Empire: the Colonial College, 1887-1905 Patrick A Dune 11 British Colonial Educational Policy: A Synonym For Cultural Imperialism? Clive Whitehead. Index.
Biography
J. A. Mangan (University of Strathclyde, UK) (Edited by)
