Rethinking the History of Education Transnational Perspectives on Its Questions, Methods, and Knowledge

by Popkewitz, Thomas S.

• ISBN13: 9781137000699
• ISBN10: 1137000694
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Drawing on a wide variety of traditions and methods in historical studies, from the humanities and social sciences both, this volume considers how historians from a wide variety of countries create the study of the history of education. It poses ways of thinking about the questions, methods, and knowledge of historical studies in the formation of schooling that go beyond those typically found in American studies of the history of education.

Author Biography

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. His studies are concerned with the history of the present, focusing on the systems of reason that govern the education sciences, pedagogical reforms, and teacher education. His recent books include Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform: Science, Education, and Making Society by Making the Child (2008) and The Child, the Citizen, and the Promised Land: Comparative Visions in the Development of Schooling in the Long 19th Century (Tröhler, Popkewitz, and Labaree, eds., 2011).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Styles of Reason: Historicism, Historicizing and the Historical Objects in the History of Education; Thomas S. Popkewitz
PART I: 'SEEING' HISTORICAL OBJECT: ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES
2. The Visual Turn in the History of Education: Four Comments for a Historiographical Discussion; Inés Dussel
3. Chinese Mode of Historical Thinking and its Transformation in Pedagogical Discourse; Zongjie Wu
PART II: IN SEARCH OF THE ARCHIVE: COMPARATIVE STUDIES AND THEORIES OF ITS SPACES
4. Truffle Pigs, Research Questions, and Histories of Education; Daniel Tröhler
5. Entanglement and Transnationalism in the History of American Education; Noah Sobe
6. Intertwined and Parallel Stories of Educational History: Brazil and Turkey in the early 20th Century; Mirian Jorge Warde
PART III: THE MONUMENTS OF THE PAST AS THE EVENTS OF HISTORY: HISTORICIZING THE SUBJECT
7. Do Educational Models Impose Standardization? Reading Pestalozzi Historically; Rebekka Horlacher
8. From Pupil to Artist: The Dynamics of Genius, Status, and Inventiveness in Art Education in Portugal; Jorge Ramos do Ó, Catarina S. Martins and Ana Luísa Paz
9. Artistic Education: A Laboratory to the Fashioning of Mexican Identity (1920-1940 c.a.); María Esther Aguirre Lora
10. The 'body parts' of the Victorian School Architect E. R. Robson or an Exploration of the Writing and Reading of a Life; Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor
PART IV: HISTORICIZING AND THE SPACE OF AMERICAN HISTORICISM
11. There are no Independent Variables in History; Lynn Fendler
Contributors
Index