Empire and Education in Africa

Peter Kallaway, a teacher educator/historian/comparative educationalist/policy analyst, is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of the Western Cape and Research Associate at the University of Cape Town. A past and current member of the editorial boards of several academic journals, including History of Education, he is editor of The History of Education under Apartheid: 1948–1994 (2003); Education after Apartheid (1997); Johannesburg: Images and Continuities: A History of Working Class Life through Pictures, 1885–1935 (with P. Pearson, 1986); and Apartheid and Education (1984).Rebecca Swartz completed her Ph.D., "Ignorant and Idle: Indigenous Education in Natal and Western Australia, 1833–1875", at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2015. She was funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.

• Acknowledgments – Peter Kallaway/Rebecca Swartz: Introduction – Tim Allender: ‘Lessons’ from the Subcontinent: Indian Dynamics in British Africa – Section One: Nineteenth Century – Rebecca Swartz: Industrial Education in Natal: The British Imperial Context, 1830–1860 – Helen Ludlow: Shaping Colonial Subjects through Government Education: Policy, Implementation and Reception at the Cape of Good Hope, 1839–1862 – Brian Willan: ‘A Test of Civilisation’? Shakespeare, the Anglican Church and Mission Education in Victorian Grahamstown – Section Two: Inter-War Era British Territories – Christina Cappy: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in Shaping South African Colonial Educational Policy in the Early Twentieth Century – Richard Glotzer: Charles Templeman Loram: Education and Race Relations in South Africa and North America – Meghan Healy-Clancy: Mass Education and the Gendered Politics of ‘Development’ in Apartheid South Africa and Late-Colonial British Africa – Section Three: German Sphere/East Africa – Peter Kallaway: German Lutheran Missions, German Anthropology and Science in African Colonial Education – Section Four: French Colonial Education in Africa – Elsie Rockwell: Tracing Assimilation and Adaptation through School Exercise Books from Afrique Occidentale Française in the Early Twentieth Century – Ellen Vea Rosnes: Protestant and French Colonial Literacies in Madagascar in the Early Twentieth Century – Pierre Guidi: Independence and Influence: Empress Mänän School—An Ethio-French Girls’ School in 1930s Ethiopia – Bio-Notes of Contributors – Index

"Empire and Education in Africa is a useful collection and should be valuable to readers as they discover the roots of current issues from the study of colonial schooling in Africa." (Brendan P. Carmody, History of Education 2017)