ABSTRACT

In this article, we offer a survey of histories of education in the region commonly known as ‘Oceania’, which broadly encompasses the subregions today known as Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The first part of this article addresses ‘the history of education in Oceania’ as a topic of both interest and omission. In the second part of this article, we attend to the question of how Oceania was crucial to the formation of northern and western European systems of scientific knowledge. Overall, we propose that working with ‘Oceania’ as a frame of vision in the history of education has the potential not only to address some big gaps in the literature, but also to productively challenge some of our field’s foundational narratives about progress, land, nations, system-building, and colonialism.

摘要

在本文中，我们对通常被称为“大洋洲”的地区的教育史进行了调查，该地区广泛涵盖了今天的澳大利亚、新西兰/奥特亚罗亚、美拉尼西亚、密克罗尼西亚和波利尼西亚等次区域。本文的第一部分将“大洋洲的教育史”作为一个既有趣又遗漏的话题。在本文的第二部分，我们讨论大洋洲对于北欧和西欧科学知识体系的形成如何至关重要的问题。总体而言，我们建议将“大洋洲”作为教育史上的一个视野框架，不仅有可能解决文献中的一些重大空白，而且有可能有效地挑战我们领域关于进步、土地、国家、体系建设和殖民主义。