'Pedagogic invasion': The Thomasites in occupied Philippines

• Main Author: Sianturi, Dinah Roma-
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Masculinity > Philippines; Students > Philippines; Teachers' writings, American; Christadelphians > Philippines > History; Education > United States > Colonies; Education > Philippines > History; American Studies; Arts and Humanities; Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/2808
• Institution: De La Salle University

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 t...