an elite christian girl's school on Java in a context of social change, c. 1907-1939
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review
- Magazine Year
- 2020
- Magazine Number
- 3-4
- Creator
- Kamphuis, Kirsten
- Thesaurus
- meisjes, onderwijs, kolonialisme, christendom, Nederlands-Indië, 1900-1949, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This article focuses on the protestant Koningin Wilhelmina school for daughters of the Javanes nobility in Yogyakarta. It explores the way Dutch teachers tried to provide their students with a surrogate christian family to create distance frome their own milieu. By analyzing letters from graduates, the article shows how these type of schools functioned on two different levels in the late-colonial Dutch East Indies (1900-1942), that is empowering the local families versus reforming Javanese according to a European/ christian model.