Gender, colonialism, and education
Subtitle: the politics of experience
By: edited by Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin.
Contributors: Goodman, Joyce, 1946-; Martin, Jane, 1959-
Series: Woburn education series
Publisher: Woburn Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Education -- History.; Sex role -- History.
Description: "Gender, Colonialism and Education ... is an array of articles, covering the liminal crosscurrents surrounding the complex relationship between gender and education in Europe and within the perimeter of Euroimperialsm in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Together, the essays span the emergent intersections of gender with the ideology and discursive practice of educational institutions, curricula and pedagogy in a variety of geographical and cultural settings across the globe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 'gender', 'colonialism', 'politics' and 'experience': challenging and troubling histories of education / Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin; title: A head and a heart: Calvinism and gendered ideals of parenthood in Dutch child-rearing literature c. 1845-1920 / Nelleke Bakker; title: The pleasure of learning and the tightrope of desire: teacher-student relationships and Victorian pedagogy / Mark McBeth; title: Through cigarette cards to manliness: building German character with an informal curriculum / Geoffrey Giles; title: 'Like the spirit of the Army': fascistic discourse and the National Association of Schoolmasters, 1919-39 / David Limond; title: Contesting knowledge: Mary Bridges Adams and the workers' education movement, 1900-18 / Jane Martin; title: Gendering the 'Wisconsin idea': the women's self-government association and university life, c. 1898-1948 / Christine D. Myers; title: 'Their market value must be greater for the experience they had gained': secondary school headmistresses and empire, 1897-1914 / Joyce Goodman; title: Raden Ajeng Kartini: the experience of politics of colonial education / Joost Cotè; title: New frontiers in the history of education: oral histories and history teaching in South Africa / Ziphora K. Moichela.