Introduction: 'gender', 'colonialism', 'politics' and 'experience': challenging and troubling histories of education / Joyce Goodman and Jane Martin -- A head and a heart: Calvinism and gendered ideals of parenthood in Dutch child-rearing literature c. 1845-1920 / Nelleke Bakker -- The pleasure of learning and the tightrope of desire: teacher-student relationships and Victorian pedagogy / Mark McBeth -- Through cigarette cards to manliness: building German character with an informal curriculum / Geoffrey Giles -- 'Like the spirit of the Army': fascistic discourse and the National Association of Schoolmasters, 1919-39 / David Limond -- Contesting knowledge: Mary Bridges Adams and the workers' education movement, 1900-18 / Jane Martin -- Gendering the 'Wisconsin idea': the women's self-government association and university life, c. 1898-1948 / Christine D. Myers -- 'Their market value must be greater for the experience they had gained': secondary school headmistresses and empire, 1897-1914 / Joyce Goodman -- Raden Ajeng Kartini: the experience of politics of colonial education / Joost Cotè -- New frontiers in the history of education: oral histories and history teaching in South Africa / Ziphora K. Moichela.