ABSTRACT
An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national identities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|22 pages
Introduction: ‘Colonialism', ‘Gender', ‘Politics’ and ‘Experience’
Challenging and Troubling Histories of Education
part 1|74 pages
Schooling Masculinities and Sexualities
chapter 2|21 pages
A Head and a Heart
Calvinism and Gendered Ideals of Parenthood in Dutch Child-Rearing Literature C. 1845–1920
chapter 3|27 pages
The Pleasure of Learning and the Tightrope of Desire
Teacher-Student Relationships and Victorian Pedagogy
chapter 4|24 pages
Through Cigarette Cards to Manliness
Building German Character with an Informal Curriculum
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part 2|76 pages
Gender, Politics and the Experience of Education
chapter 5|25 pages
‘Like the Spirit of the Army'
Fascistic Discourse and the National Association of Schoolmasters, 1919–139
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chapter 6|24 pages
Contesting Knowledge
Mary Bridges Adams and the Workers' Education Movement, 1900–1918
chapter 7|25 pages
Gendering the ‘Wisconsin Idea'
The Women's Self-Government Association and University Life, C.1898–1948
part 3|64 pages
Gender, Colonialism and the Experience of Education
chapter 8|24 pages
‘Their Market Value Must be Greater for the Experience they Had Gained'
Secondary School Headmistresses and Empire, 1897–1914
chapter 10|12 pages
New Frontiers in the History of Education
Oral Histories and History Teaching in South Africa
