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Record Nr.

UNINA9910829084903321

Titolo

Gender, colonialism and education : the politics of experience / / edited by Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Woburn Press : , : Frank Cass, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-98168-6

0-7130-0226-3

0-203-76091-3

1-299-47737-2

1-134-98161-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Woburn education series, , 1462-2076

Altri autori (Persone)

GoodmanJoyce <1946->

MartinJane <1959->

Disciplina

370/.9

Soggetti

Education - History

Sex role - History

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 (p. 237-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: 'gender', 'colonialism', 'politics' and 'experience': challenging and troubling histories of education / Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin -- A head and a heart: Calvinism and gendered ideals of parenthood in Dutch child-rearing literature c. 1845-1920 / Nelleke Bakker -- The pleasure of learning and the tightrope of desire: teacher-student relationships and Victorian pedagogy / Mark McBeth -- Through cigarette cards to manliness: building German character with an informal curriculum / Geoffrey Giles -- 'Like the spirit of the Army': fascistic discourse and the National Association of Schoolmasters, 1919-39 / David Limond -- Contesting knowledge: Mary Bridges Adams and the workers' education movement, 1900-18 / Jane Martin -- Gendering the 'Wisconsin idea': the women's self-government association and university life, c. 1898-1948 / Christine D. Myers -- 'Their market value must be greater for the experience they had gained': secondary school headmistresses and empire, 1897-1914 / Joyce Goodman -- Raden Ajeng Kartini: the experience of politics of colonial education / Joost Cotè€ -- New frontiers in the history of



education: oral histories and history teaching in South Africa / Ziphora K. Moichela.

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national identities.