ABSTRACT

The latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series explores the relationship between education and the globally prevalent principle of nationalism. This book identifies the diverse ways in which educational policies, discourses, curricula and pedagogy embed and promote the concept of "the nation" both historically and in the age of globalization. By challenging accounts owed to the discourse of "globalization" which conceal the presence of national epistemologies and interests in education, this book offers important insights into the role of education in making nationalism one of the most enduring and yet easily obscured forces of our time.

Organized into four sections, this book looks at the following main issues:

  • Historical (re)production of the nation considers how countries consider and reproduce their national identity and how this is built on their history
  • Hegemonic aspirations and interventions examines how instruction technologies developed during the Cold War have been propagated and disseminated around the world, how the development of educational policy based on the human capital theory emerged, and analyzes the extent to which tech companies are intent on establishing an imperial order of learning
  • Imperial policies and resurgences of nationalisms explores how global or imperial policies have been indulged in different parts of the world and how new forms of nationalism have been emerging
  • Paradoxes, inconsistencies, and a self-reflection focuses on nations acting imperially as sites of domestic injustices, addresses unresolved paradoxes between the global and the national and includes a historically informed critical review of the World Yearbooks of Education

Bringing together the voices of researchers from around the globe, The World Yearbook of Education 2022 is ideal reading for anyone interested in learning how nationalism has affected the expansion of education systems and how its imperial aspirations are currently affecting education policy and practice.

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

chapter 1|19 pages

Magical enchantments and the nation's silencing

Educational research agendas under the spell of globalization

part I|57 pages

Historical (re)production of the nation

chapter 2|17 pages

Nation-states, nation-building and schooling

The case of Spanish America in the long 19th century

chapter 3|20 pages

Towards national socialism with Chinese characteristics?

Schooling and nationalism in contemporary China

chapter 4|18 pages

Modern education and national identity in Greece and Egypt

(Re)producing the ancient in the school textbook

part II|65 pages

Hegemonic aspirations and interventions

chapter 5|16 pages

Bringing pedagogy in line

Globalizing nationally programmed instruction, new math, film and media education

chapter 6|16 pages

Schooling humans as a form of capital

The national and imperial context

chapter 7|17 pages

Extrapolated imperial nationalisms in global education policy formation

An historical inquiry into American and Scandinavian agendas in OECD policy

chapter 8|14 pages

Indexical traces of the real

Teaching in the techno-nation-state

part III|66 pages

Imperial policies and resurgences of nationalism

chapter 9|16 pages

In the name of the nation

PISA and federalism in Australia and Canada

chapter 10|16 pages

Infrastructuring the nation

Examining the role of national large-scale assessments in Russia

chapter 12|16 pages

Cuban education in the Cold War

National independence within international socialism

part IV|67 pages

Paradoxes, inconsistencies and a self-reflection

chapter 13|16 pages

Cosmopolitan nationalism and global citizenship rhetoric

Analysis of policies and curricula in South Korea, Israel and the United States

chapter 14|16 pages

The imperial nationalism of human rights and genocide education laws

Cases from the United States

chapter 15|16 pages

Educating migrant children and women in the political projects of the welfare nation-state and secularization

The Danish “extreme case” in light of the French

chapter 16|17 pages

Nations in the world

Interpreting the World Yearbooks