Educational Policy and the Mission Schools: Case Studies from the British Empire

by Holmes; Brian

• ISBN13: 9780415432474
• ISBN10: 0415432472
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

P Originally published 1967, this title reveals how the missionaries, so often misguided and short-sighted, were in fact pioneers of modernization, science and freedom. The structure of the book allows for comparative analysis and the volume illustrates how some of the social consequences of action through the schools could be foreseen. In addition light is thrown on the results of Imperial rule during the nineteenth century and on the nature of the impact of Western education in Asia and Africa. /P

Table of Contents

Chapters include:- British Imperial Policy and the Mission Schools

Missionary Activity in the Bahamas, 1700-1830

Missionary Education in Sri Lanka

Missionary Activity and the Syrian Christians in Kerala

The CMS in Kashmir- Missionary Work in Egypt during the nineteenth century-

Church and State in the Development of Education in Cyprus, 1878-1960

Mission schools in Eastern Nigeria prior to independence

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