Grammar of Difference. General Education in the Netherlands and Java, 1800-1940

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ID21244637
AuthorsElise Van Nederveen Meerkerk (0000-0003-1527-5798, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume10
Pages119-123
Publication date2021-03-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistorical Life Course Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2352-6343 • E-ISSN: 2352-6343
PublisherTSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.51964/hlcs9579
OpenAlexW3148255240
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

This contribution compares developments in school enrolment and public investments in primary education in the Netherlands and its most important colony in the 19th century: the Netherlands East Indies, more specifically the island of Java. Despite being part of the same Empire, conditions in both regions were very different, with the metropole having already quite high enrolment rates from the beginning of the period studied (the early 19th century) compared to very low school attendance in the colony. For long, the colonial government left indigenous education in Java to religious and private initiatives, whereas primary schooling in the Netherlands was increasingly financed and regulated. Rising interest for public schooling in the colony, including some government investment in the first decades of the 20th century did lead to some changes, but these were insufficient to prevent Dutch and Javanese children from experiencing a fundamentally different educational upbringing

Ancient history · Art · Attendance · Colonialism · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Empire · Grammar school · Indigenous · Java · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Educational Research and Methods · History · Law · Religious Education and Schools

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