EAN: 9783319959085

EDUCATION AND EMPIRE - REBECCA SWARTZ GEBUNDEN

This book tracks the changes in government involvement in Indigneous children's education over
the nineteenth century  drawing on case studies from the Caribbean  Australia and South Africa.
Schools were pivotal in the production and reproduction of racial difference in the colonies of
settlement. Between 1833 and 1880  there were remarkable changes in thinking about education in
Britain and the Empire with it increasingly seen as a government responsibility. At the same
time  children's needs came to be seen as different to those of their parents  and childhood
was approached as a time to make interventions into Indigenous people's lives. This period also
saw shifts in thinking about race. Members of the public  researchers  missionaries and
governments discussed the function of education  considering whether it could be used to
further humanitarian or settler colonial aims. Underlying these questions were anxieties
regarding the status of Indigenous people in newly colonised territories: the successful
education of their children could show their potential for equality.

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