Benefits Bestowed?

<p>This volume concentrates on the processes and practices of formal education, which shaped, and were shaped by, imperial values, attitudes and behaviour. It is concerned with: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The myths and visions of imperialism; </li> <p> </p> <li>The nature and extent of ethnocentric attitudes, declared and undeclared; </li> <p> </p> <li>The use of education as a means of disseminating and reinforcing imperial images;</li> <p> </p> <li>The changing concept of imperialism as reflected in the emphases of educational literature</li> <p> </p> <li>The different perceptions of imperialism in the various social and ethnic strata of metropolitan and overseas communities and education systems</li> <p> </p> <li>The assimiliation, adaptation and rejection of metropolitan educational models</li> <p> </p> <li>The issue of imperial education as enlightenment, hegemony and control. </li> </ul><p>The book features chapters by educationalists, historians and sociologists on education as a cornerstone in the construction of imperial control.</p> <p>Introduction: Imperialism, History and Education <em>J A Mangan</em> 1 Imperialism in the Study and Teaching of History <em>Richard Aldrich</em> 2 English Elementary Education and the Growth of the Imperial Ideal: 1880-1914 <em>Pamela Horn</em> 3 The Nineteenth-Century English Preparatory School: cradle and crèche of Empire? <em>Donald Leinster-Mackay</em> 4 Imperialism and the Irish National School System <em>John Coolahan</em> 5 The Newfoundland School Society 1823-55: Missionary Enterprise or Cultural Imperalism? <em>W P McCann</em> 6 Imperialism, Patriotism and Kiwi primary schooling between the Wars <em>R Openshaw</em> 7 Socialisation, imperialism and war: Ideology and Ethnicity in Australian corporate schools 1880-1918 <em>Geoffrey Sherington</em> and <em>Mark Connellan</em> 8 Race, Gender and Imperialism: A Century of Black Girls’ Education in South Africa <em>Deborah Gaitskell</em> 9 Public-School Freemasonry in the Empire: ‘Mafia of the Mediocre’? <em>Paul J Rich</em> 10 Education, Emigration and Empire: the Colonial College, 1887-1905 <em>Patrick A Dune</em> 11 British Colonial Educational Policy: A Synonym For Cultural Imperialism? <em>Clive Whitehead</em>. Index. </p>