Description
The Christian churches have frequently pioneered educational advances – from the seventh century down to the nineteenth. Schools, universities and colleges of education stand as tangible evidence of these efforts. Do all these ventures belong merely to educational history – relics of the days when Christianity was influential enough to play a leading part in education? Or has Christianity still a distinctive contribution to make to educational thought and practice? The educationalists who contributed to the Hibbert Lectures of 1965 are convinced that it has. They examine the nature of this contribution and show how it is to be made a time when education seems to be mainly influenced by secular rather than religious assumptions and aims. The six lectures fall into two main parts. Christianity in the schools is the theme of the first three; Christianity in higher education that of the last three.
Table of Contents
Introduction (A.J.H. Latham)
PART I
1. An Interview with Peter Mathias (A.J.H. Latham)
PART II
2. Barges and Bargemasters on the Thames in the Eighteenth Century (H.I.H. Crown Prince Naruhito)
3. Edo and Water (H.I.H. Crown Prince Naruhito)
4. Consuming Plants: Botany and Consumer Society (Toshio Kusamitsu)
5. Invisible Links: Maritime Trade between Japan and South Asia in the Early Modern Period (Ryuto Shimada)
6. Knowledge and Use of Japanese by the Dutch on Dejima Island, Nagasaki (L.M. Cullen)
7. India’s Role in the Industrial Revolution (Heita Kawakatsu)
8. India and the Emergence of the International Economy: A Synopsis (A.J.H. Latham)
9. Steamship Competition in Asia in the Late Nineteenth Century: Britain and the United States (Masami Kita)
10. Reorganization of the Mixed Court System in Shanghai, 1906-1913 (Eiichi Motono)
11. The Dispute over the Quality of Rice Exports from Siam to Europe in the 1920s (Toshiyuki Miyata)
12. Japan’s Economic Diplomacy in Colonial Africa during the Inter-war Period: Japanese Consular Reports (Katsuhiko Kitagawa)
