Border-crossing in Education

Joëlle Droux is a Senior Lecturer in the history of education, and co-leader of the Social History of Education Research Group (ERHISE), at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She studies the history of international child welfare movements and humanitarian networks from a transnational perspective, with a focus on educational issues. She also develops research projects on the long-term evolution of Swiss policies for child and youth welfare.

By observing the density of connections and exchanges that inform educational practices, policies, and systems on both a local and an international scale, this book demonstrates the multilateral character of the circulatory dynamics in the field of education, and extends our knowledge of the evolution of educational policies and systems. It also shows that the phenomena of resistance, reinterpretation, and rejection are an integral part of transnational mechanisms of exchanges, and thus demonstrates the relevance of a historical approach in addressing transnational mechanisms in the field of education and childhood policy. This book was published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.

Introduction - Going international: the history of education stepping beyond borders 1. Within, between, above, and beyond: (Pre)positions for a history of the internationalisation of education practices and knowledge 2. The rivalry of the French and American educational missions during the Vietnam War 3. New School of Mustafa Sati Bey in Istanbul (1915) 4. Condescension and critical sympathy: Historians of education on progressive education in the United States and England 5. Crossing borders in educational innovation: Framing foreign examples in discussing comprehensive education in the Netherlands, 1969-1979 6. La reception des travaux scouts de Pierre Bovet en France (1912-décennie 1930) 7. Toiling together for social cohesion: International influences on the development of teacher education in the United States 8. Fred Clarke and the internationalisation of studies and research in education 9. "A miniature League of Nations": inquiry into the social origins of the International School, 1924-1930 10. Transnational treaties on children's rights: Norm building and circulation in the twentieth century 11. L'éducation sexuelle, entre médecine, morale et pédagogie: débats transnationaux et réalisations locales (Suisse romande 1890-1930) 12. Braille, amma and integration: the hybrid evolution of education for the blind in Taiwan, 1870s-1970s 13. De Genève à Belo Horizonte, une histoire croisée: circulation, reception et reinterpretation d'un modèle européen des classes spéciales au Brésil des années 1930 14. Westward bound? Dutch education and cultural transfer in the mid-twentieth century 15. L'Association international des éducateurs de jeunes inadaptés (AIEJI) et la fabrique de l'éducateur spécialisé par delà les frontiers (1951-1963)