Cultural History and Education: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Schooling

by Thomas Popkewitz, Barry M. Franklin, Miguel Pereyra

Overview

Cultural History and Education brings together an outstanding group of the leading scholars in the study of the cultural history of education. These scholars, whose work represents a variety of national contexts from throughout Europe, Latin America, and North America, contribute to a growing body of work that seeks to re-think historical studies in education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415928052
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/21/2001
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Thomas Popkewitz teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Barry Franklin at the University of Michigan-Flint, and Miguel Pereyra at University of Granada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface 1. History, the Problem of Knowledge, and the New Cultural History of Schooling- Thomas S. Popkewitz, Miguel A. Pereyra, and Barry M. Franklin 2. Texts, Images, and Memories: Writing New Histories of Education- António Nóvoa 3. A New Cultural History of Education: A Developmental Perspective on History of Education Research- Heinz-Elmar Tenorth 4. Politics and Culture in the Making of History of Education in Brazil- Mirian Jorge Warde and Marta Maria Chayas de Carvalho 5. Genealogy of Education: Some Models of Analysis- Julia Varela 6. History of Education and Cultural History: Possibilities, Problems, and Questions- Antonio Viñao 7. The Production of Reason and Power: Curriculum History and Intellectual Traditions- Thomas S. Popkewitz 8. Notes from Nowhere (On the Beginnings of Modern Schooling)- David Hamilton 9. School Uniforms and the Disciplining of Appreances: Towards a History of the Regulation of Bodies in Modern Educational Systems- Inés Dussel 10. Ideas in a Historical Web: A Genealogy of Educational Ideas and Reforms in Iceland- Ingólfur Ásgeir Jóhannesson 11. Literacy and Schooling from a Cultural Historian's Point of View- Anne-Marie Chartier and Jean Hébrard 12. Teacher Education Reform in the Shadow of State-University Links: The Cultural Politics of Texts- Katharina E. Heyning 13. Dewey and Vygotsky: Ideas in Historical Spaces- Thomas S. Popkewitz Notes on Contributors Name Index Subject Index

Editorial Reviews

These essays re-think historical studies by integrating the study of knowledge systems (also called "discourses") into traditional intellectual history. They investigate how these discourses construct, shape, coordinate, and constitute social practices through which individuals reason about their participation and identity. The collection challenges the field of historical studies to move away from historicism, thus introducing new ways to think about the politics of knowledge and the difficulties facing education reform. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"A diverse collection of readings by scholars from three continents, this book develops a "cultural history" of education, the term being used to denote a Foucauldian, postmodern analysis of educational phenomena as cultural practices ... The authors reject prevailing explanations - historicist, neo-Marxist, among others - as simplistic." -- The Journal of Educational Thought

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