Peter Kallaway, a teacher educator/historian/comparative educationalist/policy analyst, is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of the Western Cape and Research Associate at the University of Cape Town. A past and current member of the editorial boards of several academic journals, including History of Education, he is editor of The History of Education under Apartheid: 1948-1994 (2003); Education after Apartheid (1997); Johannesburg: Images and Continuities: A History of Working Class Life through Pictures, 1885-1935 (with P. Pearson, 1986); and Apartheid and Education (1984).

Rebecca Swartz completed her Ph.D., "Ignorant and Idle: Indigenous Education in Natal and Western Australia, 1833-1875", at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2015. She was funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Acknowledgments - Peter Kallaway/Rebecca Swartz: Introduction - Tim Allender: 'Lessons' from the Subcontinent: Indian Dynamics in British Africa - Section One: Nineteenth Century - Rebecca Swartz: Industrial Education in Natal: The British Imperial Context, 1830-1860 - Helen Ludlow: Shaping Colonial Subjects through Government Education: Policy, Implementation and Reception at the Cape of Good Hope, 1839-1862 - Brian Willan: 'A Test of Civilisation'? Shakespeare, the Anglican Church and Mission Education in Victorian Grahamstown - Section Two: Inter-War Era British Territories - Christina Cappy: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in Shaping South African Colonial Educational Policy in the Early Twentieth Century - Richard Glotzer: Charles Templeman Loram: Education and Race Relations in South Africa and North America - Meghan Healy-Clancy: Mass Education and the Gendered Politics of 'Development' in Apartheid South Africa and Late-Colonial British Africa - Section Three: German Sphere/East Africa - Peter Kallaway: German Lutheran Missions, German Anthropology and Science in African Colonial Education - Section Four: French Colonial Education in Africa - Elsie Rockwell: Tracing Assimilation and Adaptation through School Exercise Books from Afrique Occidentale Française in the Early Twentieth Century - Ellen Vea Rosnes: Protestant and French Colonial Literacies in Madagascar in the Early Twentieth Century - Pierre Guidi: Independence and Influence: Empress Mänän School-An Ethio-French Girls' School in 1930s Ethiopia - Bio-Notes of Contributors - Index