Languages of education [electronic resource] : Protestant legacies, national identities, and global aspirations / Daniel Tröhler
- Author
- Tröhler, Daniel
- Published
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 252 p. ; 24 cm.
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- Contents
- Introduction: languages of education -- The educationalization of the modern world: progress, passion, and the Protestant promise of education -- Protestant misunderstandings: Max Weber and the Protestant ethic in America -- Rousseau's classical republicanism -- Linguistic turbulences: the American debates, 1776-1788 -- Pragmatism, American culture, and the "Kingdom of God on earth? -- Language as homeland: the Genevan reception of pragmatism -- The becoming of an educational science: the Protestant souls and psychologies -- The German geisteswissenschaftliche Pä̈dagogik and the ideology of Bildung -- Languages of education compared: Germany, Switzerland, and the United States -- Globalizing globalization: the neo-institutional concept of a world culture -- The discomposure of the inward certainty: Germany's double discontent with Pisa.
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- 9780415995085 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415995086 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203828427 (e-book : alk. paper)
0203828429 (e-book : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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