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History and Citizenship Education in Post-Mao China: Politics, Policy, Praxis
By Alisa Jones
This book examines the development of education in China over the past three decades, exploring the ways in which the manifold ‘contradictions’ both within and between policy prescriptions, pedagogical theory and classroom implementation have been handled where issues of political socialisation,...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-57536-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Disavowed Knowledge: Psychoanalysis, Education and Teaching
By Peter Maas Taubman
This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. Relying on primary and secondary sources, it provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis. In considering what it means to think...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-89051-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Education in World History
By Mark Johnson
This book is a comprehensive, thematic survey of the history of education throughout the world, from ancient times to the present day. Education in World History analyzes patterns of religious and cultural influence in classical societies, as well as the ways in which conquest, trade and...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-31814-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Engendering Curriculum History
By Petra Hendry
How can curriculum history be re-envisioned from a feminist, poststructuralist perspective? Engendering Curriculum History disrupts dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual. This conversation requires a history that seeks re-memberance not...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-88567-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia: Divided Memories
Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel Sneider
Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-60303-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Struggle for the History of Education
By Gary McCulloch
In The Struggle for History Education, Gary McCulloch sets out a vision for a future of study in the history of education which contributes to education, history and social sciences alike. Over the past century the history of education has passed through a number of approaches, more recently...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-56535-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Comparative Visions
Edited by Thomas S. Popkewitz, Daniel Tröhler, David Labaree
This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-88900-1 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Education For Leadership: The International Administrative Staff Colleges 1948-1984
By A T cornwall-jones
As well as being a history of administrative staff colleges in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, the Phillipines and Ghana between 1948 and 1984, the colleges' contribution to the development of effective managers is evaluated....
December 2010 | 978-0-415-61169-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Textbook as Discourse: Sociocultural Dimensions of American Schoolbooks
Edited by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., Annis N. Shaver, Manuel Bello
The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-88647-5 | Paperback (Routledge)