Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies

by Helen May and Baljit Kaur

Book Overview

Taking up a little-known story of education, schooling, and missionary endeavor, Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner focus on the experiences of very young native' children in three British colonies. In missionary settlements across the northern part of the North Island of New Zealand, Upper Canada, and British-controlled India, experimental British ventures for placing young children of the poor in infant schools were simultaneously transported...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472409604
• ISBN13: 9781472409607
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"