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Gender, colonialism and education : the politics of experience

Title
Gender, colonialism and education : the politics of experience / edited by Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin.
Publication
London ; Portland, OR : Woburn Press, ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Goodman, Joyce, 1946-
  • Martin, Jane, 1959-
Description
xv, 272 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
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; linkages between rationality and affect, desire and pedagogy; the construction of national identities; and the traversing of "public" and "private" identites by parents, educational reformers and teachers.
Series Statement
Woburn education series
Uniform Title
Woburn education series.
Subject
  • Education > History
  • Sex role
  • sex role
  • 81.01 history of teaching
  • Education
  • Erziehung
  • Geschlechterrolle
  • Onderwijs
  • Geschiedwetenschap
  • Sekseverschillen
  • Kolonialisme
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0713040467
  • 9780713040463
  • 0713002263
  • 9780713002263
LCCN
2003542834
OCLC
  • ocm51159815
  • 51159815
  • SCSB-8890425
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library