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  • Handbook on Education History, Philosophy and Theory

    Series series Elgar Handbooks in Education
    This insightful Handbook employs key historical and philosophical research to develop a new culturally sensitive theory of education that fosters open dialogue across national, disciplinary and ideological boundaries.Leading international scholars examine core concepts within their economic, political and social contexts, exploring their impact on the soul, heart, mind and emotions, as well as ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment

    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.The Age of Enlightenment is characterized by a growing belief in ... Read more

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  • Education, Curriculum and Nation-Building

    Contributions of Comparative Education to the Understanding of Nations and Nationalism

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Comparative Education
    Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building.Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of nationalism from the perspectives of comparative education research. It integrates the theme of nation, nation ... Read more

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  • Euro-Asian Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms

    Cultural Views on Globalization and Localization

    Edited by Weili Zhao, Daniel Tröhler ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a geographically unique cultural comparative lens to examine the issue of transnational curriculum knowledge (re)production. Prompted by the ongoing competency-based curriculum reforms on a global scale, this book examines where global frameworks like the OECD’s core competency definitions are rooted and how they are borrowed, resisted, and/or re-contextualized in various European ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2022

    Education, Schooling and the Global Universalization of Nationalism

    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    The latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series explores the relationship between education and the globally prevalent principle of nationalism. This book identifies the diverse ways in which educational policies, discourses, curricula and pedagogy embed and promote the concept of "the nation" both historically and in the age of globalization. By challenging accounts owed to the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    Never before published, this book features George Herbert Mead's illuminating lectures on the Philosophy of Education at the University of Chicago during the early 20th century. These lectures provide unique insight into Mead's educational thought and reveal how his early psychological writings on the social character of meaning and the social origin of reflective consciousness was central in the ... Read more

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  • Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems

    Between the National and the Global

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler, Thomas Lenz ...
    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitably confront significant tensions caused by differences in heritage, politics, and formal structures. Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the reform movements that seek to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Languages of Education

    Protestant Legacies, National Identities, and Global Aspirations

    Series series Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
    In this landmark contribution to the study of the formation of the modern school, Daniel Tröhler applies one of the most recognized methods of historical research to an analysis of the "language" of the academic discipline of education. Arguing the value of looking at languages rather than arguments--langues rather than paroles--this method of historical research is used to examine the background ... Read more

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  • Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Comparative Visions

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The authors begin with the republican ... Read more

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  • The Nordic Education Model in Context

    Historical Developments and Current Renegotiations

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    Tracing historical and cultural factors which gave rise to the Nordic Education Model, this volume explores why Northern European education policy has become an international benchmark for schooling.The text explains the historical connection between a Nordic ideal of democracy and schooling, and indicates how values of equality, welfare, justice, and individualism might be successfully integrated ... Read more

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    Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents

    Edited by Gérard Bouchard ...
    National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to ... Read more

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  • Historicizing Race

    The idea of race may be outdated, as many commentators and scholars, working in a broad range of different fields in the sciences and humanities, have argued over many years. Nevertheless, it remains one of the most persistent forms of human classification. Theories of race primitivism (the idea that there is a 'natural' racial hierarchy and ranking order of 'inferior' and 'superior' races), race ... Read more

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