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Zusatztext 'Stavros Moutsios has produced a highly original and theoretically ambitious book! which promises to extend the boundaries of Comparative Education in important directions! as he links detailed analyses of ancient Greek education! with a significant and highly welcome introduction to the work of Cornelius Castoriadis on social imaginaries! and its potential for Comparative Education scholars.' - Roger Dale! Professor at the University of Bristol.'Moutsios returns educational theory to the big questions about the purpose of education. He asks us to think again about what makes democracy possible! and what role knowledge! and by extension! education! may play in making the knowledge-democracy connection.' Elizabeth Rata! Journal of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Informationen zum Autor Stavros Moutsios is Associate Professor of International Comparative Education Policy at Aarhus University (DPU, Copenhagen). He studied at the University of London and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he also worked as a Lecturer, and he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland and a research fellow at Berlin Humboldt University. Klappentext Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective towards overseas societies and their institutions. Zusammenfassung Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective towards overseas societies and their institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Chapter 1. Social imaginary, culture and education as an institution Chapter 2. Self-reflectiveness, education and cross-cultural inquiry in Ancient Greece Chapter 3. The institution of education and comparative studies in Europe Chapter 4. Total capitalism and the (de-)Europeanisation of education and cross-cultural comparison Chapter 5. From comparison to syncrisis Bibliography ...
