Year: 1994
Type: article
Abstract: Writing in 1902, the economist J. A. Hobson drew attention to "the persistent attempt to seize the school system for Imperialism masquerading as patriotism".He complained that: 7b capture the childhood of the country... to poison its early understanding of history by false ideals and pseudo-heroes... to feed the always overweening pride of race... to fasten this base insularity of mind and morals upon the little children of a nation and to call it patriotism is as foul an abuse of education as it is possible to conceive.Various dimensions of the process by which imperial schooling "poison[ed]" children's minds with "false ideals", "pseudo-heroes" and "pride of race" in the name of patriotism have been documented by historians: Chancellor (1970), Glendenning (1975), Dunge (1977), Field (1982), MacKenzie (1985).However, as the editor of this collection points out, the relationship between racism and British imperial education has not yet been adequately explored in academic monographs, articles or essay collections.It is this failing which the current volume seeks to address.Indeed, Mangan asserts in his introduction that the collection of essays he has assembled is "the first of its kind" and it "explores faint
Source: Pedagogy Culture and Society
Author: Ian Grosvenor
Institution: Birmingham Newman University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1974415330