Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post-)Colonial Education 1
4. Part I Historiographical Reflections
5. Chapter 1 History of Education beyond the Nation? Trends in Historical and Educational Scholarship 11
6. Chapter 2 Towards a Global History of Education: Alternative Strategies 27
7. Chapter 3 Writing Histories of Congolese Colonial and Post-Colonial Education: A Historiographical View from Belgium 41
8. Chapter 4 Range and Limits of the Countryside Schooling Historiography in Latin America (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries) Some Reflections 61
9. Part II Travelling Concepts
10. Chapter 5 A Transcultural Transaction: William Carey’s Baptist Mission, the Monitorial Method and the Bengali Renaissance 85
11. Chapter 6 A Colonial Experiment in Education: Madras, 1789–1796 105
12. Part III Indigenous Education and Resistance
13. Chapter 7 A New Education for ‘Young India’ Exploring Nai Talim from the Perspective of a Connected History 123
14. Chapter 8 Colonial Education and Saami Resistance in Early Modern Sweden 140
15. Chapter 9 Constructive Orientalism: Debates on Languages and Educational Policies in Colonial India, 1830–1880 156
16. Part IV Women’s Education
17. Chapter 10 Raden Ajeng Kartini and Cultural Nationalism in Java 175
18. Chapter 11 Women’s Education through Women’s Eyes: Literary Articulations in Colonial Western India 198
19. Chapter 12 Connecting Literature and History of Education: Analysing the Educative Fiction of Jean Webster and Lila Majumdar Transculturally and Connotatively 213
20. Chapter 13 Transcending the Centre-Periphery Paradigm: Loreto Teaching in India, 1842–2010 227
21. Contributors 244
22. Index 247