Educating the Empire - American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines

This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt demonstrates how, in the classroom, American individuals challenged official narratives of empire, and how daily interactions created imperial realities on the ground that often diverged from the dictates of the colonial state.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Creating a catalog of colonial knowledge; 2. A civil empire: determining fitness for colonial education; 3. Professionals and pioneers: teachers' self-depiction in empire; 4. Recreating race: evolving notions of whiteness and blackness in empire; 5. A political education: Americans, Filipinos, and the meanings of instruction; 6. All politics is local: American teachers and their communities; 7. Speaking for ourselves: dignity and the politics of student protest; Epilogue.

About the author

Sarah Steinbock-Pratt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Alabama.

Summary

This book examines how education contributed to the creation of US empire in the Philippines. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt demonstrates how, in the classroom, American individuals challenged official narratives of empire, and how daily interactions created imperial realities on the ground that often diverged from the dictates of the colonial state.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, Sarah (University of Alabama) Steinbock-Pratt
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781108461009
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46100-9
• No. of pages: 339
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Us Foreig; Cambridge Studies in US Foreign Relations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Education, United States of America, USA, Empires & historical states, Colonialism and imperialism, Philippines, Asian History, History of the Americas, Historical states, empires, territories and regions