Rebecca Swartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 88907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Swartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Swartz |
| SIGNATURE | SWARTZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9659-4971 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Histories of empire and histories of education
The past few years have seen a vigorous resurgence of public and academic debate and controversy regarding the British Empire, its place within Britain’s own history and the legacies of British colonial practices. In spite of this reinvigorated discussion of empire, education and schooling seem to have been an area largely overlooked within the field of new imperial history. Nonetheless, histories of education have increasingly been shaped by the…
Children and institutions in settler colonial contexts: A Trans-Imperial Perspective
Children in settler colonial settings engaged with institutions in diverse ways. They were sometimes coerced, benignly encouraged or lured into these engagements and sometimes they actively engaged and shaped the nature of these institutions over their childhood and subsequent adult years. This lead article provides the historiographical, methodical and conceptual framework for the special issue of Settler Colonial Studies on children, institutio…
Teaching Texts
Notes1 SAHJ, ‘SAHJ Podcast, Episode 3: Roundtable on “Teaching Texts”,’ SAHJ Podcast, 13 July 2023, uploaded 14 July 2023, 1:41 hours, https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-iw3du-14571b8.2 See T. Simpson, Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2016).3 D. Posel, The Making of Apartheid 1948–1961: Conflict and Compromise (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); D. O’Meara, Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of th…
A trove for historians of Africa: Reflections from the International Studies Group and research associates
Trove opens possibilities for collaborative, transnational and comparative research from scholars in the Global South, who often work with limited financial resources. Indeed, Trove has been indispensable for the South African-based historians in the International Studies Group, who would otherwise face difficulties accessing Australian primary sources. It also enables Australian perspectives to be incorporated into African histories, fostering t…
Child Apprenticeship in the Cape Colony: The Case of the Children’s Friend Society Emigration Scheme, 1833–1841
This article examines the meanings of apprenticeship in the Cape colony in the wake of emancipation. It focuses on a small group of white child labourers brought to the Cape from England in the 1830s by a London-based philanthropic organisation, the Children’s Friend Society. The paper highlights how these children’s apprenticeships were described and understood in relation to other groups of labourers at the Cape. The children were compared with…
Children In Between: Child Migrants from England to the Cape in the 1830s
Between 1833 and 1841 the Children's Friend Society, a London-based philanthropic organization, sent some eight hundred children from England to the Cape, where they were apprenticed to local settlers. This article focuses on two of them: Alfred Brooks, aged thirteen or fourteen, and twelve-year-old Elizabeth Foulger. Both of these children appear in archival traces because they transgressed and were subsequently disciplined by their masters. The…
Conflicting logics of online higher education
The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educational reach, while competing in international rankings, raising fees and generating third-stream income. Online forms of unbundled provision offering smaller flexible low-cost curricular units have promised to disrupt this system. Yet do these forms c…
Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833–1880
Theory of mind as a mechanism linking mother–toddler relationship quality and child–friend interaction during the preschool years
Children's relationships with parents and peers have been examined as predictors and outcomes, respectively, of theory of mind (ToM). Yet, these two lines of inquiry have remained largely distinct. The current study bridges this gap. Mother–child coordinated interaction and attachment security (continuous rating) were assessed at 2.8 years ( N = 128 dyads), ToM was assessed at 3.3, 4.8, and 5.4 years, and child–friend interaction was observed at …
Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860–1895
Sarah Duff's monograph makes an important contribution to the historiography of children and childhood in South Africa. While historians have discussed the impact of colonialism on intergenerationa
Educating Emotions in Natal and Western Australia, 1854-65
This article argues that schools acted as important "emotional frontiers" in colonial contexts. As places where missionaries, government and Indigenous people met, colonial schools could connect, disconnect and recreate emotional ties. Drawing on two cases from the mid-nineteenth century, one from Natal and the other from Western Australia, the article highlights the centrality of affect—positive and negative—in histories of colonial schooling. C…
Britishness’, Colonial Governance and Education: St Helenian Children in Colonial Natal in the 1870s
This article considers understandings of ‘Britishness’ in the Natal colony in the 1870s. Focusing on St Helenian children’s expulsion from ‘government’ schools that were ostensibly open to all racial groups, the article shows how competing definitions of race and ‘Britishness’ shaped the responses of colonial officials, settlers and the St Helenian community to the expulsion. The white settler population in Natal was concerned about St Helenian e…
Good citizens and gentlemen’: Gender, Reputation and Identity at the South African College, 1880–1910
This article examines the formation of gendered identities at the South African College, later the University of Cape Town, between 1880 and 1910. Using the records of disciplinary cases at the College, the article shows that there was an attempt to construct the ‘ideal’ College gentleman as adhering to particular codes of behaviour, seen as distinctive to young men who had been educated at the College. It then discusses inclusions and exclusions…
Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective
This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. It is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published In Kallaway, P. & Swartz, R. (Eds.) Empire and Education in Africa : The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, pp. 271-297, in the series History of Schools and Schooling. Please cite only the published version using the reference above
Accessibility and use of primary healthcare for immigrants living in the Niagara Region
Conflicting logics of online higher education
The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educational reach, while competing in international rankings, raising fees and generating third-stream income. Online forms of unbundled provision offering smaller flexible low-cost curricular units have promised to disrupt this system. Yet do these forms c…
Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective
This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. It is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published In Kallaway, P. & Swartz, R. (Eds.) Empire and Education in Africa : The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, pp. 271-297, in the series History of Schools and Schooling. Please cite only the published version using the reference above
Accessibility and use of primary healthcare for immigrants living in the Niagara Region
Theory of mind as a mechanism linking mother–toddler relationship quality and child–friend interaction during the preschool years
Children's relationships with parents and peers have been examined as predictors and outcomes, respectively, of theory of mind (ToM). Yet, these two lines of inquiry have remained largely distinct. The current study bridges this gap. Mother–child coordinated interaction and attachment security (continuous rating) were assessed at 2.8 years ( N = 128 dyads), ToM was assessed at 3.3, 4.8, and 5.4 years, and child–friend interaction was observed at …
Britishness’, Colonial Governance and Education: St Helenian Children in Colonial Natal in the 1870s
This article considers understandings of ‘Britishness’ in the Natal colony in the 1870s. Focusing on St Helenian children’s expulsion from ‘government’ schools that were ostensibly open to all racial groups, the article shows how competing definitions of race and ‘Britishness’ shaped the responses of colonial officials, settlers and the St Helenian community to the expulsion. The white settler population in Natal was concerned about St Helenian e…
Good citizens and gentlemen’: Gender, Reputation and Identity at the South African College, 1880–1910
This article examines the formation of gendered identities at the South African College, later the University of Cape Town, between 1880 and 1910. Using the records of disciplinary cases at the College, the article shows that there was an attempt to construct the ‘ideal’ College gentleman as adhering to particular codes of behaviour, seen as distinctive to young men who had been educated at the College. It then discusses inclusions and exclusions…
Empire and Education in Africa: The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective
This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. It is an Accepted Manuscript that has been published In Kallaway, P. & Swartz, R. (Eds.) Empire and Education in Africa : The Shaping of a Comparative Perspective, pp. 271-297, in the series History of Schools and Schooling. Please cite only the published version using the reference above
Accessibility and use of primary healthcare for immigrants living in the Niagara Region
Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860–1895
Sarah Duff's monograph makes an important contribution to the historiography of children and childhood in South Africa. While historians have discussed the impact of colonialism on intergenerationa
Educating Emotions in Natal and Western Australia, 1854-65
This article argues that schools acted as important "emotional frontiers" in colonial contexts. As places where missionaries, government and Indigenous people met, colonial schools could connect, disconnect and recreate emotional ties. Drawing on two cases from the mid-nineteenth century, one from Natal and the other from Western Australia, the article highlights the centrality of affect—positive and negative—in histories of colonial schooling. C…
Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833–1880
Theory of mind as a mechanism linking mother–toddler relationship quality and child–friend interaction during the preschool years
Children's relationships with parents and peers have been examined as predictors and outcomes, respectively, of theory of mind (ToM). Yet, these two lines of inquiry have remained largely distinct. The current study bridges this gap. Mother–child coordinated interaction and attachment security (continuous rating) were assessed at 2.8 years ( N = 128 dyads), ToM was assessed at 3.3, 4.8, and 5.4 years, and child–friend interaction was observed at …
Conflicting logics of online higher education
The advent of massive open online courses and online degrees offered via digital platforms has occurred in a climate of austerity. Public universities worldwide face challenges to expand their educational reach, while competing in international rankings, raising fees and generating third-stream income. Online forms of unbundled provision offering smaller flexible low-cost curricular units have promised to disrupt this system. Yet do these forms c…
A trove for historians of Africa: Reflections from the International Studies Group and research associates
Trove opens possibilities for collaborative, transnational and comparative research from scholars in the Global South, who often work with limited financial resources. Indeed, Trove has been indispensable for the South African-based historians in the International Studies Group, who would otherwise face difficulties accessing Australian primary sources. It also enables Australian perspectives to be incorporated into African histories, fostering t…
Child Apprenticeship in the Cape Colony: The Case of the Children’s Friend Society Emigration Scheme, 1833–1841
This article examines the meanings of apprenticeship in the Cape colony in the wake of emancipation. It focuses on a small group of white child labourers brought to the Cape from England in the 1830s by a London-based philanthropic organisation, the Children’s Friend Society. The paper highlights how these children’s apprenticeships were described and understood in relation to other groups of labourers at the Cape. The children were compared with…
Children In Between: Child Migrants from England to the Cape in the 1830s
Between 1833 and 1841 the Children's Friend Society, a London-based philanthropic organization, sent some eight hundred children from England to the Cape, where they were apprenticed to local settlers. This article focuses on two of them: Alfred Brooks, aged thirteen or fourteen, and twelve-year-old Elizabeth Foulger. Both of these children appear in archival traces because they transgressed and were subsequently disciplined by their masters. The…
Teaching Texts
Notes1 SAHJ, ‘SAHJ Podcast, Episode 3: Roundtable on “Teaching Texts”,’ SAHJ Podcast, 13 July 2023, uploaded 14 July 2023, 1:41 hours, https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-iw3du-14571b8.2 See T. Simpson, Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2016).3 D. Posel, The Making of Apartheid 1948–1961: Conflict and Compromise (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); D. O’Meara, Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of th…
Histories of empire and histories of education
The past few years have seen a vigorous resurgence of public and academic debate and controversy regarding the British Empire, its place within Britain’s own history and the legacies of British colonial practices. In spite of this reinvigorated discussion of empire, education and schooling seem to have been an area largely overlooked within the field of new imperial history. Nonetheless, histories of education have increasingly been shaped by the…
Children and institutions in settler colonial contexts: A Trans-Imperial Perspective
Children in settler colonial settings engaged with institutions in diverse ways. They were sometimes coerced, benignly encouraged or lured into these engagements and sometimes they actively engaged and shaped the nature of these institutions over their childhood and subsequent adult years. This lead article provides the historiographical, methodical and conceptual framework for the special issue of Settler Colonial Studies on children, institutio…
History (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Australian History and Society (6 works) · Ethnology (6 works)