German Example English Interest in Educational Provision in Germany Since 1800
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Biografisk notat
David Phillips is Professor of Comparative Education and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford and Director of the Centre for Comparative Studies in Education, UK. He has written widely on issues in comparative education, with a focus on education in Germany and on educational policy borrowing. He was for twenty years Editor of the Oxford Review of Education and serves on editorial boards of various journals, including Comparative Education.The German Example contributes in myriad ways to that key debate of comparative education, namely transfer and translation between cultural contexts. Thus, this volume provides both historical and contemporary examples of considerable interest to those who wish to understand the shape and reform of education systems in England and Germany even as it demonstrates how challenging such multicultural, multilingual scholarship is to craft. The collection of citations and statements…provide a considerable resource even for readers without substantial knowledge of both the lending and borrowing countries.
- Justin J. W. Powell, Comparative Education Review
A fascinating analysis of the extraordinary and multifaceted English publications on the German school system of the past two hundred years.
- Die Zeit,