This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The authors analyze the increasing importance attached to globalization as a factor in how social, institutional and economic change shapes national and regional educational trends. Although recent research in economic history has increasingly devoted more attention to global forces in shaping the institutions and fortunes of different world regions, the link and contrast between national education policies and the forces of globalization remains largely under-researched within the field.
The globalization of the world economy, starting in the nineteenth century, brought about important changes that affected school policy itself, as well as the process of long-term human capital accumulation. Large migrations prompted brain drain and gain across countries, alongside rapid transformations in the sectoral composition of the economy and demand for skills. Ideas on education and schooling circulated more easily, bringing about relevant changes in public policy, while the changing political voice of winners and losers from globalization determined the path followed by public choice. Similarly, religion and the spread of missions came to play a crucial role for the rise of schooling globally.
Author(s): David Mitch, Gabriele Cappelli
Series: Palgrave Studies In Economic History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 344
Tags: Economic History, Globalization, Mass Education
Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education—Introduction (Gabriele Cappelli, David Mitch)....Pages 1-21
Front Matter ....Pages 23-23
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa (Felix Meier zu Selhausen)....Pages 25-59
Missionaries in Latin America and Asia: A First Global Mass Education Wave (Felipe Valencia Caicedo)....Pages 61-97
Front Matter ....Pages 99-99
Universal Public Schooling in Colonial Korea and Taiwan (Sun Go, Ki-Joo Park)....Pages 101-127
Development for the Center and Civilization for the Periphery: The First Globalization, Racial Exclusion and Regional School Development in Colombia (Irina España-Eljaiek)....Pages 129-159
Front Matter ....Pages 161-161
Brain Drain and Brain Gain in Italy and Ireland in the Age of Mass Migration (Matteo Gomellini, Cormac Ó Gráda)....Pages 163-191
The Production of Impoverished but Sophisticated Emigrants: Emigration, Human Capital, and Economic Growth in Sweden (Johannes Westberg)....Pages 193-217
Organizations Matter: German Schools and Educational Performance Amid Brazilian Coffee Plantations (1840–1940) (Bruno Gabriel Witzel de Souza)....Pages 219-250
Front Matter ....Pages 251-251
Annexing the World: Education in the USA as Nationalist Policy in a Competitive Global Economy, 1877–1907 (Nancy Beadie)....Pages 253-277
Risen from the Chaos: The Emergence of Modern Education in China (Pei Gao)....Pages 279-309
Globalization and the Rise of Women’s Literacy and Primary Education in Iran, from 1880 to the Present Day (David Mitch)....Pages 311-334
Back Matter ....Pages 335-338
