| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) |
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Global Histories of Education |
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Global histories of education.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction : the transnational in the history of education -- 2. The transnational and transcultural : approaches to studying the circulation and transfer of educational knowledge -- 3. Day nurseries in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : the challenge of the transnational approach -- 4. Conversations about the transnational : reading and writing the empire in the history of education -- 5. Transnationalism and the engagement of empire : precursors of the postcolonial world -- 6. Adaptations of adaptation : on how an educational concept travels from the heartlands to the hinterlands -- 7. Analyzing Toru Dutt's oeuvre today : how a transnational literary-educational case from colonial India can enrich our conception of transnational history -- 8. Temporalities and the transnational : Yoshi Kasuya's consideration of secondary education for girls in Japan (1933) -- 9. (De)constructing the global community : education, childhood and the transnational history of international organizations -- 10. Transnational as comparative history : (un)thinking difference in the self and others |
| Summary |
This edited volume reflects on how the "transnational" features in education as well as policies and practices are conceived of as mobile and connected beyond the local. Like "globalization," the "transnational" is much more than a static reality of the modern world; it has become a mode of observation and self-reflection that informs education research, history, and policy in many world regions. This book examines the sociocultural project that the "transnational turn" evident in historical scholarship of the last few decades represents, and how a "transnational history" shapes how historians construct their objects of study. It does so from a multinational perspective, yet with a view of the different layers of historical meanings associated with the concept of the transnational |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- History -- Congresses
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Education -- History.
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Education
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fuchs, Eckhardt, 1961- editor.
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Roldán Vera, Eugenia, editor.
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| ISBN |
303017168X |
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9783030171681 |
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