Conversations About the Transnational: Reading and Writing the Empire in the History of Education

Abstract

Rogers explores how the transnational “turn” has entered the vocabulary of scholars working on the history of education in an imperial context. She highlights the ways contemporary imperial history offers a powerful challenge to the writing of national history. Through an examination of scholarship emphasizing the circulations and connections between the British metropole and colony, she notes how a transnational perspective introduces attention to circulations and connections between different spaces. Rogers analyzes the role of teachers as transnational actors in the modern period through a focus on a transnational approach. She addresses how attention to transnational experiences in the context of colonial schools yields new insights, and considers the challenges of labeling the study of circulations, flows, and exchanges that characterize scholarship on the empire.