«<i>Empire and Education in Africa</i> is a useful collection and should be valuable to readers as they discover the roots of current issues from the study of colonial schooling in Africa.»<br />
(Brendan P. Carmody, History of Education 2017)<br /><br />
«[...] scholars and students of the history of education in Africa or the history of colonial education in other world regions will find something of interest in this collection. It is a valuable and welcome addition to the literature.»<br />
(Kelly Duke Bryant, The International Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 50, 2 2017).
Acknowledgments – Peter Kallaway/Rebecca Swartz: Introduction – Tim Allender: ‘Lessons’ from the Subcontinent: Indian Dynamics in British Africa – Section One: Nineteenth Century – Rebecca Swartz: Industrial Education in Natal: The British Imperial Context, 1830–1860 – Helen Ludlow: Shaping Colonial Subjects through Government Education: Policy, Implementation and Reception at the Cape of Good Hope, 1839–1862 – Brian Willan: ‘A Test of Civilisation’? Shakespeare, the Anglican Church and Mission Education in Victorian Grahamstown – Section Two: Inter-War Era British Territories – Christina Cappy: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in Shaping South African Colonial Educational Policy in the Early Twentieth Century – Richard Glotzer: Charles Templeman Loram: Education and Race Relations in South Africa and North America – Meghan Healy-Clancy: Mass Education and the Gendered Politics of ‘Development’ in Apartheid South Africa and Late-Colonial British Africa – Section Three: German Sphere/East Africa – Peter Kallaway: German Lutheran Missions, German Anthropology and Science in African Colonial Education – Section Four: French Colonial Education in Africa – Elsie Rockwell: Tracing Assimilation and Adaptation through School Exercise Books from Afrique Occidentale Française in the Early Twentieth Century – Ellen Vea Rosnes: Protestant and French Colonial Literacies in Madagascar in the Early Twentieth Century – Pierre Guidi: Independence and Influence: Empress Mänän School—An Ethio-French Girls’ School in 1930s Ethiopia – Bio-Notes of Contributors – Index
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Biographical note
Peter Kallaway, a teacher educator/historian/comparative educationalist/policy analyst, is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of the Western Cape and Research Associate at the University of Cape Town. A past and current member of the editorial boards of several academic journals, including History of Education, he is editor of The History of Education under Apartheid: 1948–1994 (2003); Education after Apartheid (1997); Johannesburg: Images and Continuities: A History of Working Class Life through Pictures, 1885–1935 (with P. Pearson, 1986); and Apartheid and Education (1984).
Rebecca Swartz completed her Ph.D., "Ignorant and Idle: Indigenous Education in Natal and Western Australia, 1833–1875", at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2015. She was funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.