Colonial craft-school debates preceded metropolitan Dutch vocational schooling
Evidence
Debates in the Indies around craft schools that began in the 1830s probably did not preļ¬gure those in Holland but they did precede the widespread creation of such schools in Dutch cities. ā Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemicā¦, 731
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: Did the colonies supply models for metropolitan welfare/vocational schemes, reversing the usual diffusion direction? Worth chasing the historiography.
- XREF: Parallels the ācolony as laboratoryā thesis ā the periphery producing social innovations later imported to the metropole ā also visible in French Algeria.