Education In World History

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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. 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