ABSTRACT
This volume presents the first comparative analysis of racial attitudes in the formal schooling of both Britain and its former dominions and colonies. The various contributions examine the issue right across the British imperial experience – with case studies ranging from Canada, Ireland, East and South Africa, through the Indian subcontinent to Australia and New Zealand. Racial indoctrination is considered from the perspective of both colonizer and colonized. The central theme throughout is that a racial hierarchy was taught through both curriculum and text in schools throughout the former British Empire.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Resistance to an unremitting process
Racism, curriculum and education in Western Canada
chapter |28 pages
Rulers and ruled
Racial perceptions, curriculum and schooling in colonial Malaya and Singapore
chapter |19 pages
‘English in taste, in opinions, in words and intellect'
Indoctrinating the Indian through textbook, curriculum and education