Empire, Education, And Indigenous Childhoods: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools In Three British Colonies (Studies In Childhood, 1700 To The Present)

Examining the experiences of very young ?ative?children in three British colonies, the authors focus on the shared as well as unique aspects of the colonial experience in infant schools across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India. Informed by archival research, Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods illuminates both the pervasiveness of missionary education and the diverse contexts in which its attendant ideals were applied.

• • Author: Dr Helen May, Dr Baljit Kaur, Dr Larry Prochner
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Apr 14, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 300 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472409604
• • ISBN-13: 9781472409607