1. Rev. J. Upton Read, ‘Childhood and Christ’s Children’, Supplement to the N.Z. Christian Record (3 December 1880), 2.
2. Later in his life, the influential Horace Bushnell held a high view of children and their natural susceptibility to religious formation; see Margaret Bendroth, ‘Horace Bushnell’s Christian Nurture’, in Marcia J. Bunge (ed.), The Child in Christian Thought (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2001), 350–364, here 359.
3. Geoffrey Troughton, ‘Religious Education and the Rise of Psychological Childhood in New Zealand’, History of Education Review 33 (2) (2004), 30–44.
4. See e.g. Christine Weir, ‘“Deeply Interested in These Children Whom You Have Not Seen”: The Protestant Sunday School View of the Pacific, 1900–1940’, Journal of Pacific History 48 (1) (2013), 43–62;
5. Helen May, Baljit Kaur and Larry Prochner, Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).