Overview
- Examines the ways in which boarding schools extracted pupils from their original social background
- Frames these ‘boarding schools’ as a global and transcultural phenomenon
- Makes the broader argument that framing boarding schools as a global phenomenon is imperative
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Elites
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People and Networks
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Practices and Processes
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About this book
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of pupils attended boarding schools in various places across the globe. Their experiences were vastly different, yet they all had in common that they were separated from their families and childhood friends for a period of time in order to sleep, eat, learn and move within the limited spatial sites of the boarding school. This book frames these ‘boarding schools’ as a global and transcultural phenomenon that is part of larger political and social developments of European imperialism, the Cold War, and independence movements. Drawing together case studies from colonial South Africa, colonial India, Dutch Indonesia, early twentieth-century Nigeria, Fascist Spain, Ghana, Nazi Germany, nineteenth-century Ireland, North America and the Soviet Union, this edited collection examines the ways in which boarding schools extracted pupils from their original social background in order to train, mold and shape them so that they could fit intothe perceived position in broader society. The book makes the broader argument that framing boarding schools as a global phenomenon is imperative for a deepened understanding of the global and transnational networks that linked people as well as ideas and practices of education and childhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel Gerster is Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Contemporary History (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte) in Hamburg, Germany. His principle areas of research are the history of gender, religion, and education in Germany and Europe in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is author of Friedensdialoge im Kalten Krieg. Eine Geschichte der Katholiken in der Bundesrepublik, 1957-1983 (2012) and co-editor of God's Own Gender? Masculinities in World Religions (2018).
Felicity Jensz is a historian in the Cluster of Excellence (2060) Religion and Politics at the University of Münster, Germany. Her research focuses on British and German colonial history, gender, religion, and education in the long nineteenth century. Her most recent publications include Missionaries and Modernity (2022) and Legacies of David Cranz’s ‘Historie von Grönland’ (1765) (co-edited with Christina Petterson, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Perspectives on Boarding Schools in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Editors: Daniel Gerster, Felicity Jensz
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99041-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99040-4Published: 15 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99043-5Published: 15 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99041-1Published: 14 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 369
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Modern History, History of Education, Children, Youth and Family Policy