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Schroeder, Stephanie – Children's Literature in Education, 2023
This paper explores the American Girl book series and its relation to the history of American education and the school's role in the creation of the ideal American girl. Focused on the Kirsten Larson series of American Girl books, this paper explores how the settler grammars that characterize Kirsten's encounters with an "Indian girl"…
Descriptors: Land Settlement, Protestants, Colonialism, Females
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van Koeven, Erna; Leeman, Yvonne – Intercultural Education, 2011
The goals of citizenship education are often contested in Protestant schools with an ethnically heterogeneous population of pupils in multicultural European societies today. This is connected to the tension between the inclusive goal of citizenship for a pluralistic world and the exclusive goal of education in the Christian faith. This paper…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Protestants, Citizenship, Citizenship Education
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Morrison, Hugh – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2011
How late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Protestant children supported and interacted with foreign missions is still a relatively undeveloped field of scholarly research. Missionary societies actively recruited children's money, energy and sensibilities for the missionary cause. Sunday school pedagogy and rhetoric focused on cultivating a…
Descriptors: Protestants, Rhetoric, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis