Research Catalog

Title

School beginnings : a nineteenth century colonial story / Helen May.

Author

May, Helen, 1947-

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : NZCER Press, 2005.

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Details

Description

252 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

History of early childhood education during the nineteenth century in New Zealand. Four chapters cover distinct phases of the period: educating of Maori children in missionary infant schools; arrival of European colonists bringing rudimentary educational equipment and school books; provisional government era when beginnings of a public school system emerged; establishment of a national schooling system in the last decades of the century.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Geschichte 1830-1900
• Education, Primary > New Zealand > History > 19th century
• Elementary schools > New Zealand > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Cover subtitle: a 19th century colonial story.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. MISSIONARY INFANT SCHOOLS FOR MAORI CHILDREN 1830s 1840s. Gather the children -- Paihia Infant School European founders -- The best soil for cultivation -- Tini : a lady of considerable note -- An alphabet on her coffin -- Weaned from their kaingags -- CHAPTER TWO. EARLY SCHOOLING FOR THE FIRST SETTLERS 1840s 1850s. New world possibilities -- Shipboard learning -- First school fragments -- Dame school traditions -- Church interests -- Taranaki s Happy Colony -- CHAPTER THREE. PROVINCIAL PRIORITIES 1850s 1870s. Statistical clues -- Variety of ventures -- Provincial patterns -- Inspectors interests -- Speedy assimilation -- Introducing standards -- CHAPTER FOUR. INFANCY OF A NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM 1870s-1900s. Infant space -- Examining infants -- Remote experience -- Tasks of teaching -- Kindergarten system -- Mt Cook Infant School -- Native School primers -- Determining discipline -- Century s end and new beginnings. --
• INTRODUCTION. -- CHAPTER ONE. MISSIONARY INFANT SCHOOLS FOR MAORI CHILDREN 1830s 1840s. Gather the children -- Paihia Infant School European founders -- The best soil for cultivation -- Tini : a lady of considerable note -- An alphabet on her coffin -- Ẁeaned from their kaingags. -- CHAPTER TWO. EARLY SCHOOLING FOR THE FIRST SETTLERS 1840s 1850s. New world possibilities -- Shipboard learning -- First school fragments -- Dame school traditions -- Church interests -- Taranaki s H̀appy Colony -- CHAPTER THREE. PROVINCIAL PRIORITIES 1850s 1870s. Statistical clues -- Variety of ventures -- Provincial patterns -- Inspectors interests -- Speedy assimilation -- Introducing standards -- CHAPTER FOUR. INFANCY OF A NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM 1870s-1900s. Infant space -- Examining infants -- Remote experience -- Tasks of teaching -- Kindergarten system -- Mt Cook Infant School -- Native School primers -- Determining discipline -- Century s end and new beginnings.

ISBN

• 1877398063 (pbk.)
• 9781877396069
• 1877396063 (p. 4 of cover) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2006386891

OCLC

• 70131319
• SCSB-11480857

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library