The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America
The Development of Early Childhood Education in Europe and North America

Author: Harry Willekens

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 1137441984

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The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.

Materialities of Schooling
Materialities of Schooling

Author: Martin Lawn

Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd

Published: 2005-05-16

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1873927304

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This is a book with an interest in the materiality of schooling. It is focused on objects in schooling, which, taken individually and together, constitute the sites of schooling. It does not assume a fixed dichotomy between objects and people, in other words, that there is a life of imagination and action, and there are collections of inanimate objects. Nor does it assume that the technologies and objects of schooling, chained together by routines and action, should remain invisible from inquiry into schools as sites of learning and work. Instead, by drawing attention to the materiality of schooling, that is, the ways that objects are given meaning, how they are used, and how they are linked into heterogeneous active networks, in which people, objects and routines are closely connected, it is hoped that a richer historical account can be created about the ways that schools work.

Educational Policy Borrowing
Educational Policy Borrowing

Author: David Phillips

Publisher: Symposium Books Ltd

Published: 2004-05-10

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1873927940

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This book builds on the Editors’ previous work on the analysis of policy borrowing processes in education. A number of prominent researchers in comparative studies contribute articles describing and analysing policy borrowing in a number of historical contexts, with many of the examples testing aspects of the explanatory models developed by Phillips & Ochs. The countries covered include England, Spain, Germany, France, Austria, Japan and South Africa.