Daniel Trohler – författare

Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building.

Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of nationalism from the perspectives of comparative education research. It integrates the theme of nation, nation-building and nationalism and its involvement with issues of education. It explores the theoretical scope of concepts such as national identities, national literacies, or "doing" nation. The book revives the idea that nation should be the starting point of comparative research and contributes to the theoretically reflective integration of nationalism research into education research.

This timely book will be highly relevant for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of comparative education, international education, education policy, and curriculum studies.

Contributing to interdisciplinary discussions on nationalism, the book explores how educational systems and practices contribute to the phenomena of nationalism and nation-building.

Using nine comparative case studies from four continents, the book elaborates a theoretical understanding of nationalism from the perspectives of comparative education research. It integrates the theme of nation, nation-building and nationalism and its involvement with issues of education. It explores the theoretical scope of concepts such as national identities, national literacies, or "doing" nation. The book revives the idea that nation should be the starting point of comparative research and contributes to the theoretically reflective integration of nationalism research into education research.

This timely book will be highly relevant for researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of comparative education, international education, education policy, and curriculum studies.

This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The authors begin with the republican preoccupation with civic virtue – the need to overcome self-interest in order to take up the common interest – which requires a form of education that can produce individuals who are capable of self-guided rational action for the public good. They then ask how these educational preoccupations led to the emergence of modern school systems in a disparate array of national contexts, even those that were not republican.

By examining historical changes in republicanism across time and space, the authors explore central epistemologies that connect the modern individual to community and citizenship through the medium of schooling. Ideas of the individual were reformulated in the nineteenth century in reaction to new ideas about justice, social order, and progress, and the organization and pedagogy of the school turned these changes into a way to transform the self into the citizen.

This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. The authors begin with the republican preoccupation with civic virtue – the need to overcome self-interest in order to take up the common interest – which requires a form of education that can produce individuals who are capable of self-guided rational action for the public good. They then ask how these educational preoccupations led to the emergence of modern school systems in a disparate array of national contexts, even those that were not republican.

By examining historical changes in republicanism across time and space, the authors explore central epistemologies that connect the modern individual to community and citizenship through the medium of schooling. Ideas of the individual were reformulated in the nineteenth century in reaction to new ideas about justice, social order, and progress, and the organization and pedagogy of the school turned these changes into a way to transform the self into the citizen.

In this landmark contribution to the study of the formation of the modern school, Daniel Tröhler applies one of the most recognized methods of historical research to an analysis of the "language" of the academic discipline of education. Arguing the value of looking at languages rather than arguments--langues rather than paroles--this method of historical research is used to examine the background of different philosophies, theories, or arguments of education, specifically republicanism and Protestantism. Tröhler’s argument is that such analysis is essential to tracing back educational arguments to the ideological core of their concerns, and thus to understanding in international perspective the historical development of education systems and organizations and to evaluating their different theoretical and political approaches and claims. Elegantly written, with the historian’s attention to archival material, this book enables the reader to understand the complex and different social, cultural, religious, and political context factors embedded in the "thought" of schooling and its objects of scrutiny--its notions of the child and teacher. Languages of Education is essential reading for scholars and students across the fields of history and philosophy of education, curriculum studies, and comparative education.

In this landmark contribution to the study of the formation of the modern school, Daniel Tröhler applies one of the most recognized methods of historical research to an analysis of the "language" of the academic discipline of education. Arguing the value of looking at languages rather than arguments--langues rather than paroles--this method of historical research is used to examine the background of different philosophies, theories, or arguments of education, specifically republicanism and Protestantism. Tröhler’s argument is that such analysis is essential to tracing back educational arguments to the ideological core of their concerns, and thus to understanding in international perspective the historical development of education systems and organizations and to evaluating their different theoretical and political approaches and claims. Elegantly written, with the historian’s attention to archival material, this book enables the reader to understand the complex and different social, cultural, religious, and political context factors embedded in the "thought" of schooling and its objects of scrutiny--its notions of the child and teacher. Languages of Education is essential reading for scholars and students across the fields of history and philosophy of education, curriculum studies, and comparative education.

As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitably confront significant tensions caused by differences in heritage, politics, and formal structures. Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the reform movements that seek to homogenize schooling around the world. Informed by historical and sociological insight into a variety of nations and eras, these in-depth case studies reveal how and why sweeping, convergent reform agendas clash with specific institutional policies, practices, and curricula. Countering current theoretical models which fail to address the potential pressures born from these challenging isomorphic developments, this book illuminates the cultural idiosyncrasies that both produce and problematize global reform efforts and offers a new way of understanding curriculum as a manifestation of national identity.

As contemporary education becomes increasingly tied to global economic power, national school systems attempting to influence one another inevitably confront significant tensions caused by differences in heritage, politics, and formal structures. Trajectories in the Development of Modern School Systems provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical critique of the reform movements that seek to homogenize schooling around the world. Informed by historical and sociological insight into a variety of nations and eras, these in-depth case studies reveal how and why sweeping, convergent reform agendas clash with specific institutional policies, practices, and curricula. Countering current theoretical models which fail to address the potential pressures born from these challenging isomorphic developments, this book illuminates the cultural idiosyncrasies that both produce and problematize global reform efforts and offers a new way of understanding curriculum as a manifestation of national identity.

Der zweite Band der Briefe an Pestalozzi umfasst die Jahre 1805 bis 1809 und enthält knapp 400 Briefe. Im napoleonischen Europa avancierte "Volkserziehung" zu einem wichtigen Punkt auf der nationalen Agenda, so dass die Methode Pestalozzis praktische Relevanz bekam. Darüberhinaus zeigen die Briefe, auf welche Gegenargumente die Bewunderer Pestalozzis stießen und wie es zu ersten Konflikten in seinem Institut auf Schloss Yverdon kam.

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Der dritte Band der Briefe an Pestalozzi umfasst die Jahre 1810 bis 1813 und enthält über 600 Briefe. Sie zeigen, wie Pestalozzis Methode in den verschiedenen Staaten Europas (Preussen, Russland, Italien, England) Interesse erregt, geben Einblick in die ersten grösseren Krisen innerhalb der Organisation des Instituts, und sie machen deutlich, wie hoch die Nachfrage nach Ausbildungsplätzen für Schüler und Lehrer aus dem In- und Ausland war. Zudem berichten enge Mitarbeiter Pestalozzis in langen Briefen von ihren Erfahrungen mit der Methode im Ausland.

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Der neue Band der Briefe an Pestalozzi umfasst die Zeit zwischen 1814 und Juli 1817 und damit das Ende Napoleons, den Wiener Kongress sowie die grosse europäische Wirtschaftskrise der Jahre 1816/17. Letztere wirkte sich ökonomisch nachteilig auf Pestalozzis Anstalt aus, die aufgrund der öffentlichen Fehden der Mitarbeiter ohnehin einen Rückgang der Schüler zu verkraften hatte. Daneben stehen die Aktivitäten im Zusammenhang mit der Einwerbung der Subskriptionen für die Gesamtausgabe der Werke Pestalozzis. Der unglaubliche Erfolg – über 1800 Subskriptionen gingen bloss auf die Ankündigung hin ein – steht für Pestalozzis europaweite Berühmtheit. Sein weitverzweigtes Netz an Kontakten umfasste Schulreformer, Regierungen, Adelige und Kaufleute von Russland über Siebenbürgen, London, Frankreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz bis nach Amerika. Die Briefe der Subskribenten bezeugen trotz Krise im Institut die grosse Verehrung, ja fast kultische Huldigung, die Pestalozzi zuteil wurde.

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Der fünfte Band der Briefe an Pestalozzi umfasst die Zeit von August 1817 bis 1820 und damit eine Zeit mit grassierender Armut sowie die Jahre des Durchbruchs der Restauration vor allem in Preussen. Diese Ereignisse prägten auch die Korrespondenz Pestalozzis. Überdeckt wurde die Krise durch die zahlreich eingehenden Briefe zur erfolgreichen Subskription von Pestalozzis gesammelten Werken. Die politisch, wirtschaftlich und persönlich turbulente Zeit war auch dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass Pestalozzi nach vielen erfolglosen Versuchen wieder eine Armenanstalt - in Yverdons Vorort Clindy - eröffnen konnte und eine intensive Rezeption seiner Methode in England und Irland begann. Und tatsächlich: Die Schülerzahlen stiegen wieder an, und es kam zu einer eigentlichen "englischen Kolonie" in Yverdon. Zudem verschob sich das Interesse in den Osten und Südosten Europas sowie in die aufstrebenden industrialisierten Regionen des Niederrheins.

Die hier veröffentlichte Korrespondenz zeigt, wie sich England für Pestalozzis Methode zu interessieren beginnt und damit den Weg für seine Rezeption in den USA und in Japan ebnet. Gleichzeitig gerät Pestalozzi in den 1820er Jahren zunehmend unter den Druck der Restauration. Nach der von Metternich erlassenen Pressezensur für Immigranten verließ er Yverdon und zog 1825 wieder auf den Neuhof, wo er eine Armenerziehungsanstalt plante.

Die hier veröffentlichte Korrespondenz zeigt, wie sich England für Pestalozzis Methode zu interessieren beginnt und damit den Weg für seine Rezeption in den USA und in Japan ebnet. Gleichzeitig gerät Pestalozzi in den 1820er Jahren zunehmend unter den Druck der Restauration. Nach der von Metternich erlassenen Pressezensur für Immigranten verließ er Yverdon und zog 1825 wieder auf den Neuhof, wo er eine Armenerziehungsanstalt plante.