American post-conflict educational reform: from the Spanish-American war to Iraq

This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings across the globe. INDICE: American Imperatives, Educational Reconstruction and the Post-Conflict Promise; N.W.Sobe - Education at the End of a Gun: The Origins of American Imperial Education in the Philippines; B.Justice - 'The Path of Progress': Protestant Missions, Education, and US Hegemony in the 'New Cuba', 1898-1940; J.Yaremko - American Philanthropy and Reconstruction in Europe after World War I: Bringing the West to Serbia; N.W.Sobe - 'The Appeal to the German Mind': Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944-1949; C.Dorn& B.Puaca - Demystifying the Divine State and Rewriting Cultural Identity in the US Occupation of Japan; M.Shibata& K.Ohkura - The German Post-War Educational Reform Era and the 'American Way of Life'; T.Koinzer - American Academics and Education for Democracy in Post-communist Europe; L.B.Perry - Lost in Translation: Parent Teacher Associations and Reconstruction in Bosnia in the Late 1990s; D.Burde - Allah, America, and the Army: US Involvement in South Asia andPakistan's Education Policy; M.Ayaz Naseem - Corporate Education and 'Democracy Promotion' Overseas: The Case of Creative Associates International, Inc in Iraq, 2003-2004; K.J.Saltman -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61592-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés