1st Edition

Society and Education An Outline of Comparison

By Stavros Moutsios Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.

'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