Education, Globalization, and the Nation State

217 Pages·1997·10.57 MB·English

by  Andy Green

Education, Globalization
and the Nation State
Andy Green
EDUCATION, GLOBALIZATION ANDTHENATION
STATE
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Education, Globalization
and the Nation State
AndyGreen
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction
Postmodernism and StateEducation 7
2 Education and StateFormation in Europeand Asia 29
3 TechnicalEducation and StateFormation in
Nineteenth-Century Englandand France 52
4 TheRoles ofthe Stateand the Socia.lPartnersin
VocationalEducationand TrainingSystems 74
5 Education and CulturalIdentity in the United Kingdom 93
6 Educational Achievementin Centralizedand
DecentralizedSystems 106
7 Education, Globalization and the Nation State 130
Notes 187
Bibliography 190
Index 203
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Acknowledgements
Many of thechapters inthis book are based onessays of mine whichorig
inally appeared in journals and edited books over the past three years:
Chapter 1 from 'Postmodernism and State Education' in Journal of
Education Policy; Chapter 2 from 'Education and State Formation in
Europe and Asia' in A. Heikkinen (ed.), Vocational Education and
Culture - European Prospects from Theory and Practice, Tampere;
Chapter 3 from 'Technical Education and State Formation in Nineteenth
Century England and France' in History ofEducationJournal; Chapter4
from 'The Roles of the State and the Social Partners in Vocational
Education and Training Systems' in L. Bash and A. Green (eds), Youth,
Education and Work: World Yearbook ofEducation 1995, Kogan Page.
Chapter 5 is from an article written jointly with Richard Aldrich which
appearedas 'Education andCultural Identity intheUnited Kingdom' inB.
Hildebrand and S. Sting (eds), Erziehung und Kulturelle Identitdt,
Waxman.. My thanks to the editors and publishers of those volumes and
particularly to Richard Aldrich for allowing me to publish a revised
version ofour essay here.
A number of people have been generous enough to read and comment
on various versions ofthese essays. I would like to thank inparticularPat
Ainley for his sound advice on Chapters 1and 7,and Hugh Lauder, Brian
Simon and Michael Young for their very helpful comments on the final
chapter. My thanks also to Hilary Steedman with whom I have collabo
rated on a numberof research projects, the results of which I have drawn
on in Chapter 6. Needless to say in the course of writing these essays I
have been helped and influenced by many others, notleast my students at
the Institute ofEducation. I am grateful to them all but take full respons
ibility for theoutcomehere.