Connecting Histories of Education

Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-266-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

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, and hybridization, thereby rejecting traditional notions of colonial education as an export of pre-existing metropolitan educational systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bagchi, Barnita

Fuchs, Eckhardt

Rousmaniere, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Vergleichende und Empirische Bildungsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post-)Colonial Education

Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs and Kate Rousmaniere

Part 1: Historiographical Reflections

Chapter 1. History of Education beyond the Nation? Trends in Historical and Educational Scholarship

Eckhardt Fuchs

Chapter 2. Contested Pasts: The Concept of Civilization in the Colonial and Nationalist Discourse of Education

Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Chapter 3. Writing Histories of Congolese Colonial Education: An Historiographical View from Belgium

Marc Depaepe

Chapter 4. Range and Limits of the Countryside Schooling Historiography in Latin America (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries): Some Reflections

Alicia Civera

Part 2: Travelling Concepts

Chapter 5. A Trans-Cultural Transaction: William Carey’s Baptist Mission, the Monitorial Method and the Bengali Renaissance

Mary Hilton

Chapter 6. A Colonial Experiment in Education: Madras, 1789–1796

Jana Tschurenev

Part 3: Indigenous Education and Resistance

Chapter 7. A New Education for ‘Young India’: Exploring Nai Talim from the Perspective of a Connected History

Simone Holzwarth

Chapter 8. Colonial Education and Saami Resistance in Early Modern Sweden

Daniel Lindmark

Chapter 9. Constructive Orientalism: Debates on Languages and Educational Policies in Colonial India, 1830–1880

Hakim Ikhlef

Part 4: Women’s Education

Chapter 10. Raden Ajeng Kartini and Cultural Nationalism in Java

Joost Coté

Chapter 11. Women’s Education through Women’s Eyes: Literary Articulations in Colonial Western India

Meera Kosambi

Chapter 12. Connecting Literature and History of Education: Analysing the Educative Fiction of Jean Webster and Lila Majumdar Transculturally and Connotatively

Barnita Bagchi

Chapter 13. Loreto Teaching in India, 1842–2010: Transcending the Centre-Periphery Paradigm

Tim Allender

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rousmaniere, Kate
Kate Rousmaniere is Professor of Social Foundations of Education in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University, Ohio, and past president of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. She has researched and published on the history of American teachers and school principals, gender in education, and methodologies in the social history of education.

Bagchi, Barnita
Barnita Bagchi teaches and researches Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her numerous publications include many articles and an edited volume, The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered (2012) and a co-edited volume with A.K. Bagchi and D. Sinha, Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to Postcolonial India (2005).

Fuchs, Eckhardt
Eckhardt Fuchs is Professor of History of Education/Comparative Education at the Technical University of Braunschweig and Deputy Director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig (Germany). He is currently President of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education. He has published widely on transnational and global history of education, textbook and curriculum studies, and history of human sciences including Transnationalizing the History of Education (2012) and Contextualizing School Textbook Revision (2010).

Barnita Bagchi teaches and researches Comparative Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her numerous publications include many articles and an edited volume, The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered (2012) and a co-edited volume with A.K. Bagchi and D. Sinha, Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to Postcolonial India (2005).