| Description |
1 online resource (295 pages) |
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Studies in Curriculum Theory Series |
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Studies in curriculum theory.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PART I The Global and the Local in the History of Education; 1 Between the National and the Global: Introduction; 2 Practical Knowledge and School Reform: The Impracticality of Local Knowledge in Strategies of Change; PART II Fabricating the Nation: National and International Impacts on Schooling in the Long 19th Century; 3 People, Citizens, Nations: Organizing Modern Schooling in Western Europe in the 19th Century: The Cases of Luxembourg and Zurich |
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4 Educating the Catholic Citizen: The Institutionalization of Primary Education in Luxembourg in the 19th Century and Beyond5 Early School Evaluation and Competency Conflicts Between Primary and Secondary Schools in Luxembourg Around 1850; 6 Taking the Right Measures: The French Political and Cultural Revolution and the Introduction of New Systems of Measurement in Swiss Schools in the 19th Century; 7 Education Statistics, School Reform, and the Development of Administrative Bodies: The Example of Zurich Around 1900 |
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8 From Abstinence to Economic Promotion, or the International Temperance Movement and the Swiss SchoolsPART III The Internationalization of European Schooling in the Cold War; 9 The Implementation of Programmed Learning in Switzerland; 10 Global Comparison and National Application: Polls as a Means for Improving Teacher Education and Stabilizing the School System in Cold War Germany; 11 The National in the Global: Switzerland and the Council of Europe's Policies on Schooling for Migrant Children in the 1960s |
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12 Language Structures in a Multilingual and Multidisciplinary World: The Adaptations of Luxembourgian Language Education Within a Cold War Culture13 Contesting Education: Media Debates and the Public Sphere in Luxembourg; 14 Globalization in Finnish and West German Educational Rhetoric, 1960-1970; PART IV Recent Developments; 15 Calling for Sustainability: WWF's Global Agenda and Teaching Swedish Exceptionalism; 16 From the Literate Citizen to the Qualified Science Worker: Neoliberal Rationality in Danish Science Education Reforms |
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17 The European Educational Model and Its Paradoxical Impact at the National Level18 Accelerated Westernization in Post-Soviet Russia: Coupling Higher Education and Research; 19 Contesting Isomorphism and Divergence: Historicizing the Chinese Educational Encounter With the "West"; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
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 homogenize schooling around the world. Informed by historical and sociological insight into a variety of nations and eras, these in-depth case studies reveal how and why sweeping, convergent reform a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education and state -- Europe -- History
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School management and organization -- Europe -- History
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Education and globalization -- Europe
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Education and globalization
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Education and state
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School management and organization
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lenz, Thomas
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| ISBN |
9781317448174 |
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1317448170 |
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9781138903487 |
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1138903485 |
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9781315696898 |
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1315696894 |
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