Education Beyond Europe: Models and Traditions Before Modernities

The focus of this volume is on illuminating local educational traditions and the resistance that modernization faced in particular contexts around the world. In this vein, this volume breaks from the common narrative of educational historiography privileging the imposition of European structures and its consequences on local educational traditions. Such a narrative lends to historiographical prejudice that fosters a distorted image of indigenous cultures as "historyless," as if history was brought to them at the generosity and influence of European encounters. Fifteen multi-disciplinary scholars globally have contributed with surveys and perspectives on the history of local traditions in non-European countries before their own modernities.

Contributors include: Guochang Shen, Yongyan Wang, Xia Shen, Ga tan Rappo, Sunghwan Hwang, Jan S. Aritonang, Mere Skerrett, Saiyid Zaheer Husain Jafri, Zackery M. Heern, Judith Francis Zeitlin, Layla Jorge Teixeira Cesar, Mustafa G nd z, Igor Fedyukin, Edit Szegedi, Inese Runce, Sigur ur Gylfi Magn sson, and Dav lafsson.