ABSTRACT
Over the past two hundred years a range of gendered discourses have shaped images of women and men and their learning in white settler societies. Many were imported from Europe and more recently North America; others arose in the colonies themselves. This chapter explores the links between imperialism, colonialism and images of masculinity and lifelong learning in white settler societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It draws on the history of Aotearoa New Zealand and other former British colonies. It focuses on white settler societies within British imperial contexts.
