Title: Education beyond Europe : models and traditions before modernities /
Authors: Casalini, Cristiano, 1976-; Choi, Edward H.; Woldegiyorgis, Ayenachew A.
Year: 2021
Subjects: Education History Cross-cultural studies.; Education Western influences History Cross-cultural studies.; Education; Education Western influences
Abstract: "The focus of this volume is on illuminating how local educational traditions developed in particular contexts around the world before or during the encounter with European early modern culture. In this vein, this volume breaks from the common narrative of educational historiography privileging the imposition of European structures and its consequences on local educational traditions. Such a narrative lends to historiographical prejudice that fosters a distorted image of indigenous educational cultures as "historyless," as if history was brought to them merely through the influence of European models. Fifteen multi-disciplinary scholars globally have contributed with surveys and perspectives on the history of local traditions in countries from around the globe before their own modernities. Contributors include: Guochang Shen, Yongyan Wang, Xia Shen, Gaétan Rappo, Sunghwan Hwang, Jan S. Aritonang, Mere Skerrett, Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Zackery M. Heern, Judith Francis Zeitlin, Layla Jorge Teixeira Cesar, Mustafa Gündüz, Igor Fedyukin, Edit Szegedi , Inese Runce, Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, and Davíð Ólafsson"--
Contents: "Universities" in Japan? : education and places of learning in the early modern period / Gaétan Rappo -- School education in China from 1400 to 1800 / Guochang Shen, Yongyan Wang, and Xia Shen -- Education in premodern Korea : commitment, resiliency, and change / Edward Choi and Sunghwan Hwan -- Mission schools in Batakland / Jan S. Aritonang -- Interaction between Māori "indigenous" educational systems and the "imposed" educational systems of the West / Mere Skerrett -- Education and the transmission of knowledge in India's medieval past : contents, processes, and implications / Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri -- Shi'i educational traditions and systems in early modern Iraq and Iran / Zackery M. Heern -- Learning and literacy in Mesoamerica : pre-Hispanic traditions and the challenges of alphabetic hegemony / Judith Francis Zeitlin -- Indigenous peoples and colonial early modern education in Brazil / Layla Jorge Teixeira Cesar -- Traditional Ethiopian education and fifteenth-century reformist movements / Ayenachew A. Woldegiyorgia -- Premodern Ottoman educational institutions / Mustafa Gündüz -- Education in early modern Russia : beyond the "Petrine Revolution" / Igor Fedyukin -- Educational traditions in the Principality of Transylvania (1541-1691) Edit Szegedi -- Educational traditions in the early modern Baltics, 1400-1800 / Inese Runce -- In the name of the barefoot historians : in-between spaces within the Icelandic educational system / Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson"