'Pedagogic invasion': The Thomasites in occupied Philippines

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature, Department of

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Kritika Kultura

Issue

12

First Page

100

Last Page

119

Publication Date

5-14-2009

Abstract

The early education of the Philippines by American voluntary teachers (the Thomasites) is often hailed as a laudatory project. However, education can be a deceptive gift. The ethnographic writings of the Thomasite teachers, like Mary Fee's A Woman's Impressions of the Philippines, reveal that these well-meaning American teachers had their own colonial opinion of their Filipino students. Perhaps unwittingly, the Thomasite teachers were still part of the American colonial education policy. Most especially, the memoir writings reveal a perception of Filipino males as effeminate and childlike; an opinion that did much to legitimize the American colonial mandate.

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Disciplines

American Studies | Arts and Humanities | Education

Keywords

Masculinity--Philippines; Students--Philippines; Teachers' writings, American; Christadelphians--Philippines--History; Education--United States--Colonies; Education--Philippines--History

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