ABSTRACT
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 agendas clash with specific institutional policies, practices, and curricula. Countering current theoretical models which fail to address the potential pressures born from these challenging isomorphic developments, this book illuminates the cultural idiosyncrasies that both produce and problematize global reform efforts and offers a new way of understanding curriculum as a manifestation of national identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|23 pages
The Global and the Local in the History of Education
chapter 2|14 pages
Practical Knowledge and School Reform
part II|86 pages
Fabricating the Nation
chapter 3|19 pages
People, Citizens, Nations
chapter 4|14 pages
Educating the Catholic Citizen
chapter 6|12 pages
Taking the Right Measures
chapter 7|13 pages
Education Statistics, School Reform, and the Development of Administrative Bodies
part III|86 pages
The Internationalization of European Schooling in the Cold War
chapter 10|16 pages
Global Comparison and National Application
chapter 11|13 pages
The National in the Global
chapter 12|17 pages
Language Structures in a Multilingual and Multidisciplinary World
part IV|72 pages
Recent Developments