Transformations In Schooling: Historical And Comparative Perspectives

Transformations in Schooling This page intentionally left blank Transformations in Schooling Historical and Comparative Perspectives Edited by Kim Tolley TRANSFORMATIONS IN SCHOOLING © Kim Tolley, 2007. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN-10: 1-4039-7404-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-7404-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Macmillan India Ltd. First edition: April 2007 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America. Contents List of Tables vii Acknowledgments viii Introduction: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Transformations in Schooling Kim Tolley PART I Education and State Formation 1 2 1 13 Middle-Class Formations and the Emergence of National Schooling: A Historiographical Review of the Australian Debate Geoffrey Sherington and Craig Campbell 15 Education and State Formation Reconsidered: Chinese School Identity in Postwar Singapore Ting-Hong Wong 41 3 How the State Made and Unmade Education in the Raj, 1800–1919 Tim Allender 4 Disciplining Liberty: Early National Colombian School Struggles, 1820–1840 Meri L. Clark PART II Politics, Ideology, and Policy 5 Historic Diversity and Equity Policies in Canada Reva Joshee and Lauri Johnson 6 Conference Litmus: The Development of a Conference and Policy Culture in the Interwar Period with Special Reference to the New Education Fellowship and British Colonial Education in Southern Africa Peter Kallaway 67 87 109 111 123 PART III The Market, the State, and Transformations in Teaching 7 8 The Teaching Family, the State, and New Women in Nineteenth-Century South Australia Kay Whitehead 153 Transformations in Teaching: Toward a More Complex Model of Teacher Labor Markets in the United States, 1800–1850 Kim Tolley and Nancy Beadie 173 PART IV 9 151 Culture, Identity, and Schooling From Spaniard to Mexican and Then American: Perspectives on the Southwestern Latino School Experience, 1800–1880 Victoria-María MacDonald and Mark Nilles 10 Struggling for Voice in a Black and White World: The Lumbee Indians’ Segregated Educational Experience in North Carolina Heather Kimberly Dial Conclusion: Reflections on the Historicality of Education Systems Kim Tolley 199 201 225 251 Contributors