| Description |
208 pages : illustrations, maps, plan ; 24 cm |
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Comparative histories of education |
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Comparative histories of education.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Sites of the future : comparing and ordering new educational actualities / Martin Lawn -- Ethnohistory and materiality of education : in the setting of the universal exhibitions / Agustín Escolano Benito -- All the world into the school : world's fairs and the emergence of the school museum in the nineteenth century / Eckhardt Fuchs -- Formation and transformation of education in Japan through exhibitions : focused on the Educational Museum founded in 1877 / Kayoko Komatsu -- Fashioning writing machines : typewriting and handwriting exhibits at US world's fairs, 1893-1915 / Noah W. Sobe & Carrie B. Rackers -- Teaching the empire : the weekly Bulletin of empire study and the British Empire Exhibition, London, 1924 / Ian Grosvenor -- The spectacle of schooling and the construction of the nation in Argentina's participation in world exhibitions, 1867-1889 / Inés Dussel -- The bull and the book : images of Spain and Spanish education in the world fairs of the nineteenth century, 1851-1900 / María del Mar del Pozo Andrés -- More of a school than a show? : events in Glasgow, 1888-1988 / David Limond |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Educational anthropology -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Material culture.
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Education -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Exhibitions -- History.
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Museums -- Educational aspects -- History.
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Displays in education.
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Comparative education.
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| Author |
Lawn, Martin.
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| ISBN |
9781873927274 paperback |
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1873927274 pbk.046Z |
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