Equal to Children of European Origin’
Educability and the Civilising Mission in Early Colonial Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12649903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amanda R Barry (0000-0002-6048-3687, Corporación Universitaria del Meta, corresponding author), Amanda Barry |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 41.1-41.16 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Australia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1449-0854 • E-ISSN: 1833-4881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2104/ha080041 |
| OpenAlex | W2089606825 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article explores how transnational forms of history can provide valuable new insights into the way in which colonisers, government and missionaries educated and ‘civilised’ Australian Indigenous peoples in the early years of colonisation. Using early nineteenth-century British government reports and early colonial accounts, it argues that colonial strategies for dealing with non-Christian peoples had their genesis in techniques to control Britain’s poor and rapidly urbanising populations in the wake of the Industrial revolution. Transported to the Australian colonies, developing conceptions of class intersected with ideas about race, educability and the civilising mission, suggesting that early colonial Indigenous education was influenced by nascent British ideas about class as much as racial constructions of an Indigenous ‘other’. This article won the Wiley-Blackwell/Australian Historical Association Prize for 2007, awarded to the best paper presented by a postgraduate student at the New England AHA Regional Conference
Class (philosophy · Colonialism · Decolonization · Government (linguistics · Indigenous · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law
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Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture in nineteenth-century England
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Provincializing Europe
Schooling for the New Slavery
To Wash an Aethiop White
Equal Subjects, Unequal Rights
Equal subjects, unequal rights
Aunt Anna's Report’
Aboriginal Education as Internal Colonialism
Matters of Intimacy as Matters of State
Education in Evolution
The Politics of Working-Class Education in Britain, 1830-50
Starting positions
The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 2, 1770-1860
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |