Education in World History shows how broad currents in transnational history have interacted with trends in educational organization and teaching practices over time. From antiquity and early classical societies to present day, this book highlights the ways in which changes in religious and intellectual life and economic patterns in key world regions have generated developments in education. Since the postclassical period, cross-cultural connections have also influenced educational change. In more recent times, transnational dialogues and mobility have played a vital role in shaping educational patterns. Ranging through South and East Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, the book also considers how the impact of modern forces, such as industrialization and nationalism, have transformed education in fundamental ways. Throughout the volume, Mark S. Johnson and Peter N. Stearns emphasize the tensions between elite and state educational interests and more diverse popular demands for access and, often, for more innovative pedagogy. Suitable for introductory world history and history of education courses, this lively overview reconsiders the history of education from the perspective of world and comparative history.
Author(s): Mark S. Johnson, Peter N. Stearns
Series: Themes In World History, 10
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 259
Tags: Education: History; Educational Change: History; Comparative Education
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: Linking World History and the History of Education
Part I Education in Early Human Societies
Chapter 1 Education in Antiquity and Early Classical Societies: The Role of Religion
Chapter 2 Rome and the Early Christian World: Building the Classical Legacy
Chapter 3 Education in South and East Asia: Two Other Classical Traditions
Part II The Postclassical Centuries
Chapter 4 Fragmentation and Reconsolidation around the “Religions of the Book”
Chapter 5 Christian Education in Western Europe
Chapter 6 Education in Postclassical Societies: Regional Patterns in Asia, Africa and the Americas
Part III The Early Modern Period
Chapter 7 New Educational Impulses in Western Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Chapter 8 Changes in Eighteenth-Century European Education: New Roles for Science and the State
Chapter 9 Education in Early Modern Eurasia and Africa: Tradition and Expansion
Part IV The Long Nineteenth Century and an Emerging Modern Framework for Education
Chapter 10 The Revolutionary Tide
Chapter 11 Educational Changes in Western Societies
Chapter 12 Global Educational Trends in the Long Nineteenth Century
Part V The Contemporary Period
Chapter 13 Twentieth-Century Changes in Europe and the United States
Chapter 14 Decolonization and the Transformation of National Education Systems
Chapter 15 Recent Patterns and Tensions
Conclusion
Index
