The Transnational in the History of Education

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.

Auteur

Eckhardt Fuchs is Director of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research and Professor of History of Education and Comparative Education at the Technical University Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany. His research interests include the global history of modern education, international education policies, and curriculum and textbook development.

Eugenia Roldán Vera is Professor of History of Education at the Department of Educational Research in the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV), Mexico. Her research interests include the history of education in Mexico and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially the history of textbooks, transnational dissemination of educational models, and the ritual and performative aspects of schooling.

Résumé

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.

Contenu

1. Introduction: The Transnational in the History of Education2. The Transnational and Transcultural: Approaches to Studying the Circulation and Transfer of Educational Knowledge3. Day Nurseries in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Challenge of the Transnational Approach4. Conversations about the Transnational: Reading and Writing the Empire in the History of Education5. Transnationalism and the Engagement of Empire: Precursors of the Postcolonial World6. Adaptations of Adaptation. On how an Educational Concept Travels from the Heartlands to the Hinterlands7. Analyzing Toru Dutt's Oeurvre Today: How a Transnational Literary-Educational Casus from Colonial India Can Enrich our Conception of Transnational History8. Temporalities and the Transnational: Yoshi Kasuya's Consideration of Secondary Education for Girls in Japan9. (De)Constructing the Global Community. Education, Childhood and the Transnational History of International Organizations10. Transnational as Comparative History: (Un)Thinking Differences in the Self and Others