Education

A. S. Dillingham. Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 270 pp. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-5036-2785-7; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5036-2784-0; $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-1494-9.

Reviewed by Stephen Lewis (California State University, Chico) Published on H-LatAm (May, 2022) Commissioned by Casey M. Lurtz (Johns Hopkins University)

Dominique Townsend. A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. Illustrations. 272 pp. $29.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-231-55105-2; $30.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-19487-7; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-19486-0.

Reviewed by Lan Wu (Mount Holyoke College) Published on H-Buddhism (January, 2022) Commissioned by Lucia Galli

Nidhi Singal, Paul Lynch, Shruti Taneja Johansson, eds. Education and Disability in the Global South: New Perspectives from Africa and Asia. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Illustrations. xv + 322 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-9120-0. 

Angel David Nieves. An Architecture of Education: African American Women Design the New South. Gender and Race in American History Series. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018. Illustrations. 256 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-58046-909-8. 

Elisabeth M. Eittreim. Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education, 1879-1918. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019. pages cm. $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-2857-5; $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7006-2858-2. 

Ulf Hedberg, Harlan Lane. Elements of French Deaf Heritage. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2019. Illustrations, tables. 222 pp. $55.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-944838-56-0. 

Reviewed by Marion Schmidt (Georg August Universität, Göttingen) Published on H-Disability (January, 2021) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)

Heather D. Switzer. When the Light Is Fire: Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018. 248 pp. $28.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08372-3.

Reviewed by Lacy S. Ferrell (Central Washington University) Published on H-Africa (February, 2021) Commissioned by David D. Hurlbut (Independent Scholar)

Sarah Steinbock-Pratt. Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 390 pp. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-47312-5.

Reviewed by Hilary N. Green (University of Alabama) Published on H-Empire (February, 2020) Commissioned by Charles V. Reed (Elizabeth City State University)

William M. Schniedewind. The Finger of the Scribe: The Beginnings of Scribal Education and How It Shaped the Hebrew Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 248 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-005246-1.

Reviewed by Karel van der Toorn (University of Amsterdam) Published on H-Judaic (March, 2020) Commissioned by Barbara Krawcowicz (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Naomi Malone. A Constant Struggle: Deaf Education in New South Wales since World War II. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, 2019. 240 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-944838-49-2. 

Reviewed by Martin Atherton (Independent scholar) Published on H-Disability (June, 2020) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison (University of Glasgow)