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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789016303321

Titolo

Connecting histories of education : transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post-)colonial education / / edited by Barnita Bagchi, Eckhardt Fuchs, and Kate Rousmaniere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78238-267-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BagchiBarnita

FuchsEckhardt

RousmaniereKate

Disciplina

378/.0162

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Transnational education

Postcolonialism

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,