Languages of education
Subtitle: Protestant legacies, national identities, and global aspirations
By: Daniel Tröhler
Series: Studies in curriculum theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780415995085; 9780203828427
Subjects: Social aspects; Language and education; Protestantism; Education; Discourse analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: languages of education; title: The educationalization of the modern world: progress, passion, and the Protestant promise of education; title: Protestant misunderstandings: Max Weber and the Protestant ethic in America; title: Rousseau's classical republicanism; title: Linguistic turbulences: the American debates, 1776-1788; title: Pragmatism, American culture, and the "Kingdom of God on earth?; title: Language as homeland: the Genevan reception of pragmatism; title: The becoming of an educational science: the Protestant souls and psychologies; title: The German geisteswissenschaftliche Pä̈dagogik and the ideology of Bildung; title: Languages of education compared: Germany, Switzerland, and the United States; title: Globalizing globalization: the neo-institutional concept of a world culture; title: The discomposure of the inward certainty: Germany's double discontent with Pisa.