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  • Women and Educational Reform in History

    Japan in a Transnational World

    Edited by Joyce Goodman, Setsuko Kagawa ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Educational History and Development in Asia
    This unique collection provides critical analyses of Japanese educational history by bringing together gender, transnational, and transcultural perspectives.It illustrates how Japanese, European, and American women educators transcended national borders in seeking to reform and re-shape Japanese education and society in the midst of social and political change from the Meiji era (1868-1912) to ... Read more

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  • Gender, Colonialism and Education

    An International Perspective

    Series series Woburn Education Series
    An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national identities. ... Read more

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  • Social Change in the History of British Education

    This work provides an overall review and analysis of the history of education and of its key research priorities in the British context. It investigates the extent to which education has contributed historically to social change in Britain, how it has itself been moulded by society, and the needs and opportunities that remain for further research in this general area. Contributors review the ... Read more

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  • Women, Educational Policy-Making and Administration in England

    Authoritative Women Since 1800

    Edited by Joyce Goodman, Sylvia Harrop ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    The role of women in policy-making has been largely neglected in conventional social and political histories. This book opens up this field of study, taking the example of women in education as its focus. It examines the work, attitudes, actions and philosophies of women who played a part in policy-making and administration in education in England over two centuries, looking at women engaged at ... Read more

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  • Confucianism as a World Religion

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    Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion.The book begins at Oxford, in the late nineteenth century, when ... Read more

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  • A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970

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    Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan

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  • Making Japanese Citizens

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