Educational Knowledge : Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and the Educational Community

A collection of 14 studies by education scholars from North and South America, Europe, and Africa bring perspectives of history and the social sciences into strategies for comparative educational research. They consider changes in the operation and objectives of national state, social groups within nations, and education communities as the exist within and among nations. Their focus is on the international setting to underscore the interrelatedness of state practices with larger sets of political, cultural, and economic relations that exist among nations.

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison.