Benefits Bestowed?: Education and British Imperialism

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J. Mangan
Routledge, May 4, 2012 - Education - 260 pages

This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with:

  • The myths and visions of imperialism;
  • The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared;
  • The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing imperial images;
  • The changing concept of imperialism as reflected in the emphases of educational literature
  • The different perceptions of imperialism in the various social and ethnic strata of metropolitan and overseas communities and education systems
  • The assimiliation, adaptation and rejection of metropolitan educational models
  • The issue of imperial education as enlightenment, hegemony and control.

The book features chapters by educationalists, historians and sociologists on education as a cornerstone in the construction of imperial control.

 

Contents

imperialism history and education
1
18801914
39
cradle and crèche of Empire?
56
CHAPTER 4 Imperialism and the Irish national school system
76
missionary enterprise or cultural imperialism?
94
CHAPTER 6 Imperialism patriotism and Kiwi primary schooling between the wars
113
ideology and ethnicity in Australian corporate schools 18801918
132
a century of black girls education in South Africa
150
mafia of the mediocre?
174
the Colonial College 18871905
193
a synonym for cultural imperialism?
211
Index
231
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J. A. Mangan (University of Strathclyde, UK)

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