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Society and Education

An Outline of Comparison

Society and Education

An Outline of Comparison

ByStavros Moutsios
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 20 July 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315519739
Pages 202 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315519739
SubjectsEducation, Humanities
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Moutsios, S. (2018). Society and Education. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315519739

Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective towards overseas societies and their institutions. It is an enquiry into the social-historical institution of education and cross-cultural studies in Europe.

Elaborating on the Castoriadian ontology, the book delves into the magma of social imaginary significations that characterise and associate pivotal epochs of the continent’s history, Classical Greece and Modernity, and exemplifies their incarnation in educational systems and in the formation of the European and, in general, the Western comparative gaze. With a particular focus on our epoch, Postmodernity and globalisation, the study traces the pervasive dominance of capitalist significations in social institutions, forms, and activities, as well as in education and the way it is compared across countries. Nevertheless, as Moutsios suggests, the European tradition, notwithstanding its ideological usage by much of social sciences, contains an indissoluble critical and self-reflective dimension, which needs to be sustained and advanced in education and its cross-cultural comparison, perhaps, more than ever before.

The book demonstrates the embeddedness of education in its cultural context and should, therefore, be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students who are involved with comparative education, the sociology and history of education, education policy, and European studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|23 pages
Social imaginary, culture and education as an institution
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chapter 2|35 pages
Self-reflectiveness, education and cross-cultural inquiry in Ancient Greece
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chapter 3|43 pages
The institution of education and comparative studies in Modernity
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chapter 4|46 pages
Total capitalism and the (de-)Europeanisation of education and cross-cultural comparison
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chapter 5|16 pages
From comparison to syncrisis
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