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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.
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Transnational in the History of Education.- 2. The Transnational and Transcultural: Approaches to Studying the Circulation and Transfer of Educational Knowledge.- 3. Day Nurseries in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Challenge of the Transnational Approach.- 4. Conversations about the Transnational: Reading and Writing the Empire in the History of Education.- 5. Transnationalism and the Engagement of Empire: Precursors of the Postcolonial World.- 6. Adaptations of Adaptation. On how an Educational Concept Travels from the Heartlands to the Hinterlands.- 7. Analyzing Toru Dutt's Oeurvre Today: How a Transnational Literary-Educational Casus from Colonial India Can Enrich our Conception of Transnational History.- 8. Temporalities and the Transnational: Yoshi Kasuya's Consideration of Secondary Education for Girls in Japan.- 9. (De)Constructing the Global Community. Education, Childhood and the Transnational History of International Organizations.-10. Transnational as Comparative History: (Un)Thinking Differences in the Self and Others.-
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
Report
"The volume is of interest for all scholars who want to explore educational histories beyond and across various political entities of the modern world." (Jana Tschurenev, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, June 29, 2020)
