American post-conflict educational reform : from the Spanish-American War to Iraq / edited by Noah W. Sobe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sobe, Noah W., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational assistance, American.

Educational change.

Conflict management.

Physical Description:

vi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings across the globe. For well over a century, Americans have seen the reform of schools as key to creating social stability and conditions of peace. The contributors to this volume examine the ideals embedded in and the effectiveness of American education reform projects in the Philippines and Cuba after the Spanish-American War, in Europe after World War I, in Japan and Germany after World War II, in the aftermath of the Cold War, as well as U.S. initiatives currently underway in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

1 American Imperatives, Educational Reconstruction and the Post-Conflict Promise / Noah W. Sobe 3

Part II The "American Century" Begins

2 Education at the End of a Gun: The Origins of American Imperial Education in the Philippines / Benjamin Justice 19

3 "The Path of Progress": Protestant Missions, Education, and U.S. Hegemony in the "New Cuba," 1898-1940 / Jason M. Yaremko 53

4 American Philanthropy and Reconstruction in Europe after World War I: Bringing the West to Serbia / Noah W. Sobe 75

Part III Promises of Modernity and Abukndance

5 "The Appeal to the German Mind": Educational Reconstruction in the American Zone of Occupation, 1944-49 / Charles Dorn, Brian Puaca 105

6 Demystifying the Divine State and Rewriting Cultural Identity in the U.S. Occupation of Japan / Kentaro Ohkura, Masako Shibata 129

7 German Postwar Educational Reform and the "American Way of Life" / Thomas Koinzer 147

Part IV After the Cold War, in the Face of Terror

8 American Academics and Education for Democracy in Post-Communist Europe / Laura B. Perry 169

9 Lost in Translation: Parent Teacher Associations and Reconstruction in Bosnia in the Late 1990s / Dana Burde 189

10 Allah, America, and the Army: U.S. Involvement in South Asia and Pakistan's Education Policy / M. Ayaz Naseem 207

11 Corporate Education and "Democracy Promotion" Overseas: The Case of Creative Associates International in Iraq, 2003-4 / Kenneth J. Saltman 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230615922

0230615929

OCLC:

268792501