'Schooling Diaspora' relates the previously untold story of female education and the overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, traversing more than a century of British imperialism, Chinese migration, and Southeast Asian nationalism. This work explores the pioneering Eng…
Schooling Diaspora looks into the motivations and strategies of missionaries, colonial authorities, and Chinese reformists and revolutionaries for educating girls, as well as the impact that this education had on identity formation among overseas Chinese women and larger society.
"Published in 1749, the story of Mrs. Teachum and the nine pupils who make up her "little female academy" is widely recognized as the first full-length novel for children, and the first to be aimed specifically at girls. The daily experiences of Mrs. Teachum's charges are interw…
Pioneering Jewish education : the AIU in Baghdad, 1864-1895 -- From Danon to Sutton : The Baghdad Girls' School, 1896-1899 -- Making adjustments : Oro Sémach's tenure in Baghdad, 1899-1904 -- From the Baghdad Girls' School to the Laura Kadoorie School for Girls, 1905-1915 -- The…
"During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Alliance Israélite Universelle [AIU], a Paris-based Jewish organization, founded dozens of primary schools throughout the Middle East. Many were the first formal educational institutions for local Jewish children. In…
