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Education Systems in Historical, Cultural, and Sociological Perspectives

Editors:

  1. Daniel Tröhler

    1. University of Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

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  2. Ragnhild Barbu

    1. University of Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: The Future of Education Research (FUTU, volume 1)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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    1. Introduction

      • Daniel Tröhler, Ragnild Barbu
      Pages 1-4

  4. Reforms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. New Governance of Education

      • Helmut Fend
      Pages 39-53

  5. Successes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    3. The History of Higher Education

      • Anne Rohstock
      Pages 91-104

  6. Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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  7. Reflections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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  8. Back Matter

    Pages 181-183
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About this book

For nearly half a century, research on education systems has been increasingly popular. However, this popularity was long restricted primarily to internationally linked policy makers and education planners, often backed up by international organizations such the OECD but also by governmental or para-governmental organizations within the individual countries. These institutional affiliations provided education research with a specific character that often centres on notions such as excellence, efficiency, or standards. The specific comparative character of this policy-driven research agenda triggered the development of suitable research techniques such as comparative statistics and pertinent sub-disciplines such as cognitive psychology. Backed-up by powerful global institutions, this agenda purported to be rather unique, and it tended to ignore the cultural complexity of the educational field and those research approaches that address this complexity. This volume includes different historical, cultural, and sociological approaches to the education systems and to questions as to how research on education systems can be undertaken beyond the parameters of the existing research agenda. They demonstrate how pertinent problems of research on education systems can only be tackled taking an international and interdisciplinary approach with regard to both research questions and methods concerning education systems.
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  • University of Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

    Daniel Tröhler, Ragnhild Barbu

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