Rethinking Centre-Periphery Assumptions in the History of Education : Exchanges Among Brazil, USA, and Europe

This book provides a unique examination of the historical exchanges between Brazil, Europe and the USA, challenging the centre-periphery paradigm as it relates to international transits, hybridizations, and the appropriations of subjects, artifacts, and pedagogical and social models. The contributors propose new ways of understanding the relationships that engender the production of the school model as we know it today, addressing various voyages, trajectories, and exchanges that occurred between 1850-1960, and re-conceptualising them in favour of a more polycentric approach. Exploring topics ranging from the 1884 with the trip of Maria Guilhermina Loureiro to the USA, to more modern connections between New Education and Modern Architecture, the authors interrogate the belief that certain countries, deemed as peripheral, "borrowed" examples from countries deemed as central for being pioneers and exemplars in their initiatives. Engaging rich historical analysis of new sources, subjects, artifacts and experiences, and problematizing the very categories of centre and periphery, the book provides a unique examination of the historical exchanges that occurred, contributing to the decolonisation of education more broadly. It will be of great interest to researchers, faculty and graduate students of the history of education and international and comparative education, with interests in the Global South and postcolonial thought.

• | Author: Diana Vidal, Vivian Batista da Silva
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 19, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1032443006
• | ISBN-13: 9781032443003