Oxford handbook of the history of education / edited by John L. Rury and Eileen H. Tamura.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Consensus and revisionism in educational history / Gary McCulloch -- The urban history of education / Ansley T. Erickson -- Method in the history of education / William Richardson -- Theory in the history of education / Isaac Gottesman -- Education in Greek and Roman antiquity / Mark Joyal -- Education in Medieval Europe / Spencer E. Young -- Education in pre-modern China and Japan / Conrad Schirokauer -- Pre-colonial indigenous education in the Western Hemisphere and Pacific / Adrea Lawrence -- National education systems : Europe / James C. Albisetti - NationaleEducation systems : North America / Nancy Beadie -- National education systems : Australia and New Zealand / Craig Campbell and Maxine Stephenson -- National education systems : Latin America / G. Antonio Espinoza -- National education systems : Asia / Elizabeth VanderVen -- National education systems : Africa / Peter Kallaway -- National education systems : Middle East / Heidi Morrison -- Higher education in modern Europe / Vincent Carpentier -- The German university and its influence / Charles E. McClelland -- Higher education in Canada and the United States / Philo Hutcheson -- Higher education in Asia / Anthony Welch -- The professions and professional education / Richard K. Neumann Jr. -- Inequality in education / Judith Kafka -- Gendering the history of education / Lucy E. Bailey and Karen Graves -- Education and migration in history / Paul J. Ramsey -- Race and ethnicity in education history / Yoon K. Pak -- Education and the African diaspora / Christopher M. Span and Brenda N. Sanya -- Colonial education and anti-colonial struggles / Ana Isabel Madeira and Luis Grosso Correia -- Conflicting constructions of childhood and children in education history / Barbara Beatty -- Religion and the history of education / James W. Fraser and Diane L. Moore -- Progressive education / William J. Reese -- The history of school teachers and administrators / Kate Rousmaniere -- Transitions from rural to urban schooling / David A. Gamson -- The modern history of literacy / David Vincent -- Curriculum history / Daniel Tr?hler -- The history of non-formal and informal education / Andrew Grunzke -- The history of technology and education / Sevan Terzian -- The history of transnational and comparative education / Marcelo Caruso.

This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational experiences. Its 36 chapters consider changing scholarship in the field, examine nationally-oriented works by comparing themes and
approaches, lend international perspective on a range of issues in education, and provide suggestions for further research and analysis.

Like many other subfields of historical analysis, the history of education has been deeply affected by global processes of social and political change, especially since the 1960s. The handbook weighs the influence of various interpretive perspectives, including revisionist viewpoints, taking
particular note of changes in the past half century. Contributors consider how schooling and other educational experiences have been shaped by the larger social and political context, and how these influences have affected the experiences of students, their families and the educators who have
worked with them.