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Parution – Yoko Yamasaki et Hiroyuko Kuno, “Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan”, Routledge, 2017

https://www.routledge.com/Educational-Progressivism-Cultural-Encounters-and-Reform-in-Japan/Yamasaki-Kuno/p/book/9780367133917#

Educational Progressivism, Cultural Encounters and Reform in Japan provides a critical analysis of educational initiatives, progressive ideas and developments in curriculum and pedagogy in Japan, from 1900 to the present day. Drawing on evidence of both cultural encounters and internal drivers for progressivism and reform, this book re-evaluates the history of Japanese education to help inform ongoing and future debates about education policy and practice worldwide.

With contributions from Japanese scholars specialising in the history and philosophy of education and curriculum studies, chapters consider key collaborative improvements to teacher education, as well as group learning, ‘life education’, the creative arts and writing, and education for girls and women. The book examines Western influences, including John Dewey, Carleton Washburne and A. S. Neill, as well as Japan’s own progressive exports, such as holistic Zenjin education, Children’s Villages and Lesson Study, highlighting cultural encounters and progressive initiatives at both transnational and national levels. The chapters reflect on historical and political background, motivations, influences and the impact of Japanese progressive education. They also stimulate, through argument and critical discussion, a continuing discourse concerning principles, policy, politics and practices of education in an increasingly globalised society.

A rigorous and critical study of the history of progressive education in Japan, this book will interest an international readership of academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of progressive education, comparative education, social and cultural history, history of education, Japanese studies, curriculum studies, and the history of childhood.

Parution – Sonia Birocheau, “Incarner un modèle progressiste : la professionnalisation de l’enseignement à Chicago (1890-1940)”, ENS éditions, 2020

http://catalogue-editions.ens-lyon.fr/fr/livre/?GCOI=29021100134830

Les années 1890 à 1940 constituent une période charnière dans l’élaboration de nouveaux modèles professionnels dans l’enseignement aux États-Unis. Soucieux de mener des réformes jugées favorables au progrès de la société, divers acteurs entreprennent de modifier le système de formation des enseignants, les méthodes pédagogiques et l’organisation des systèmes scolaires. Chicago est alors un des principaux centres de réflexion de ces projets progressistes de professionnalisation de l’enseignement.

Cet ouvrage propose une étude historique de ces transformations à partir d’un échantillon élargi et inédit d’acteurs, d’institutions et de sources. Quel rôle les enseignants, les directeurs d’école ou le personnel de l’École normale de Chicago eurent-ils dans l’élaboration et la dissémination de nouveaux modèles professionnels ? Dans quelle mesure ces modèles furent-ils mis en pratique quotidiennement dans les établissements ? Quels furent effectivement l’envergure et le contenu de cette conquête professionnelle ?

Cette étude de cas apporte un point de vue complémentaire sur l’histoire de l’éducation nord-américaine, du progressisme et de Chicago, et aborde des thématiques qui font écho aux réflexions contemporaines sur l’enseignement, le genre ou les relations raciales.

Parution – Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz, “Blaming Teachers. Professionalization Policies and the Failure of Reform in American History”, Rutgers UP, 2020

Historically, Americans of all stripes have concurred that teachers were essential to the success of the public schools and nation. However, they have also concurred that public school teachers were to blame for the failures of the schools and identified professionalization as a panacea.
 
In Blaming Teachers, Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz reveals that historical professionalization reforms subverted public school teachers’ professional legitimacy. Superficially, professionalism connotes authority, expertise, and status. Professionalization for teachers never unfolded this way; rather, it was a policy process fueled by blame where others identified teachers’ shortcomings. Policymakers, school leaders, and others understood professionalization measures for teachers as efficient ways to bolster the growing bureaucratic order of the public schools through regulation and standardization. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the rise of municipal public school systems and reaching into the 1980s, Blaming Teachers traces the history of professionalization policies and the discourses of blame that sustained them.