Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Searching for “the West” in the History of Education 1
4. Conceptual Attempts on/from “the West”
5. Between Evolutionary and Container Concept: Western Self-Assertions, German Westernizers, and the Spatialization of Political Thought 13
6. Perspectives on “the West”
7. The Best in the West? The “West” in and as School Crisis Narratives 33
8. Reaching Modernity through Western Education? Debates and Practices in Modern Japan, 1853 –1894 55
9. “The West” from a Postcolonial Perspective of History of Education: The Construct “Europe” as a Conceptual Boarder 73
10. French Discourses on the “West,” “Modernity,” and “Civilization”: The Example of francophonie républicaine 89
11. Discursive Strategies of the Soviet Union in Legitimating the Western “Borrowing”: The (Re)Invention of the West and the Case of Programmed Instruction 103
12. Americanization “Russian Style”: Russia’s Love–Hate Relations with America 127
13. Letztes Jahr Titanic (1990) and Große weite Welt (1997) 149
14. In Pursuit of the Frontier: Changes at an American School in Switzerland 167
15. Epistemological Endeavors on “the West”
16. Re-Thinking “Europe” with Central-Eastern Europe: Towards Non-Occidentalist and Decolonial Epistemics in/of Queer Studies 181
17. Antagonists, Arbiters, and Allies: West German Historians and their American Colleagues 205
18. List of Contributors 223
19. Index 225