Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Notions of ‘Civilisation’ and the Project to ‘Civilise’ Aborigines in South Australia in the 1840s

Notions of ‘Civilisation’ and the Project to ‘Civilise’ Aborigines in South Australia in the 1840s During the first half of the nineteenth century Aboriginal schools were established in a number of Australian colonies as a part of a project to ‘civilise’ Aboriginal people. Using the case study of schools established in Adelaide, South Australia, in the 1840s, this article examines differences in the way the notion of ‘civilisation’ was understood by colonial educators and civilisers, and how these differences impacted on the form of schooling provided. In particular, the article compares the views of German Lutheran missionaries who established the first Aboriginal school in Adelaide in 1839, and those of Governor George Grey, who instituted changes in the approach taken in Aboriginal education which reflected his own views about ‘civilisation’ and the ‘civilising’ process http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png History of Education Review Emerald Publishing

Notions of ‘Civilisation’ and the Project to ‘Civilise’ Aborigines in South Australia in the 1840s

Anne Scrimgeour
History of Education Review , Volume 35 (1): 12 – Jun 24, 2006
Download PDF
12 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/notions-of-civilisation-and-the-project-to-civilise-aborigines-in-18mrLxxDlD

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 Emerald Group Publishing Limited. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0819-8691
DOI
10.1108/08198691200600004
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

During the first half of the nineteenth century Aboriginal schools were established in a number of Australian colonies as a part of a project to ‘civilise’ Aboriginal people. Using the case study of schools established in Adelaide, South Australia, in the 1840s, this article examines differences in the way the notion of ‘civilisation’ was understood by colonial educators and civilisers, and how these differences impacted on the form of schooling provided. In particular, the article compares the views of German Lutheran missionaries who established the first Aboriginal school in Adelaide in 1839, and those of Governor George Grey, who instituted changes in the approach taken in Aboriginal education which reflected his own views about ‘civilisation’ and the ‘civilising’ process

Journal

History of Education Review – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jun 24, 2006

Keywords: Indigenous people; Australia; Society; Civilisation

There are no references for this article.