Go West! : Conceptual Explorations of “the West” in the History of Education
The "West" is a central concept in public discourse, but its meaning is often unclear and open to manifold interpretations and ascriptions of belonging and exclusion: Who is part of the "West"? When and where is it located? How did its meaning change over space and time? Who are...
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De Gruyter
2025
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Searching for "the West" in the History of Education
- Conceptual Attempts on/from "the West"
- Between Evolutionary and Container Concept: Western Self-Assertions, German Westernizers, and the Spatialization of Political Thought
- Perspectives on "the West"
- The Best in the West? The "West" in and as School Crisis Narratives
- Reaching Modernity through Western Education? Debates and Practices in Modern Japan, 1853 -1894
- "The West" from a Postcolonial Perspective of History of Education: The Construct "Europe" as a Conceptual Boarder
- French Discourses on the "West," "Modernity," and "Civilization": The Example of francophonie républicaine
- Discursive Strategies of the Soviet Union in Legitimating the Western "Borrowing": The (Re)Invention of the West and the Case of Programmed Instruction
- Americanization "Russian Style": Russia's Love-Hate Relations with America
- Letztes Jahr Titanic (1990) and Große weite Welt (1997)
- In Pursuit of the Frontier: Changes at an American School in Switzerland
- Epistemological Endeavors on "the West"
- Re-Thinking "Europe" with Central-Eastern Europe: Towards Non-Occidentalist and Decolonial Epistemics in/of Queer Studies
- Antagonists, Arbiters, and Allies: West German Historians and their American Colleagues
- List of Contributors
- Index