| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
American Imperatives, Educational Reconstruction and the Post-Conflict Promise / Noah W. Sobe -- Education at the End of a Gun: The Origins of American Imperial Education in the Philippines / Benjamin Justice -- The Path of Progress": Protestant Missions, Education, and US Hegemony in the "New Cuba", 1898-1940 / Jason Yaremko -- American Philanthropy and Reconstruction in Europe after World War I: Bringing the West to Serbia / Noah W. Sobe -- "The Appeal to the German Mind": Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944-1949 / Charles Dorn and Brian Puaca -- Demystifying the Divine State and Rewriting Cultural Identity in the US Occupation of Japan / Masako Shibata and Kentaro Ohkura -- The German Post-War Educational Reform Era and the "American Way of Life" / Thomas Koinzer -- American Academics and Education for Democracy in Post-communist Europe / Laura B. Perry -- Lost in Translation: Parent Teacher Associations and Reconstruction in Bosnia in the Late 1990s / Dana Burde -- Allah, America, and the Army: US Involvement in South Asia and Pakistan's Education Policy / M. Ayaz Naseem -- Corporate Education and "Democracy Promotion" Overseas: The Case of Creative Associates International, Inc in Iraq, 2003-2004 / Kenneth J. Saltman |
| Summary |
This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings across the globe. For well over a century Americans have seen the reform of schools as key to creating social stability and conditions of peace. The contributors to this volume examine the ideals embedded in and effectiveness of American education reform projects in the Philippines and Cuba after the Spanish-American War, in Europe after World War I, in Japan and Germany after World War II, in the aftermath of the Cold War, as well as U.S. initiatives currently underway in Afghanistan and Iraq |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Educational assistance, American.
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Educational change.
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Conflict management.
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School improvement programs.
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Education.
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History of the Americas.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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EDUCATION -- Finance.
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Education.
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Conflict management
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Educational assistance, American
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Educational change
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Bildungspolitik
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Bildungsreform
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sobe, Noah W., 1971-
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| ISBN |
9780230101456 |
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0230101453 |
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1282742256 |
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9781282742253 |
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9781349379514 |
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1349379514 |
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