Syllabus for The History of Educational Systems

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Syllabus

  • 7.5 credits
  • Course code: 4PE121
  • Education cycle: Second cycle
  • Main field(s) of study and in-depth level: Sociology of Education A1N

    Explanation of codes

    The code indicates the education cycle and in-depth level of the course in relation to other courses within the same main field of study according to the requirements for general degrees:

    First cycle

    • G1N: has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
    • G1F: has less than 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G1E: contains specially designed degree project for Higher Education Diploma
    • G2F: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • G2E: has at least 60 credits in first-cycle course/s as entry requirements, contains degree project for Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
    • GXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

    Second cycle

    • A1N: has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1F: has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
    • A1E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (60 credits)
    • A2E: contains degree project for Master of Arts/Master of Science (120 credits)
    • AXX: in-depth level of the course cannot be classified

  • Grading system: Fail (U), Pass (G), Pass with distinction (VG)
  • Established: 2015-10-12
  • Established by:
  • Revised: 2020-10-27
  • Revised by: The Department Board
  • Applies from: Spring 2022
  • Entry requirements:

    A Bachelor's degree including at least 90 credits from a discipline pertaining to the social sciences or the humanities.

  • Responsible department: Department of Education

Decisions and guidelines

The course is part of the Master's Programme in Sociology of Education.

Learning outcomes

A student who successfully completed the course will be able to:

  • Summarise and analyse the general development of educational systems since the 19th century.
  • Explain how political and social struggles have shaped educational systems.
  • Summarise and critically value different theories and perspectives used to explain and investigate mass education and educational systems.

Content

The course deals with the establishment and development of different educational systems since the 19th century. It treats the rise of mass education, as well as the later evolution of primary education, and the attempts to explain this development from different theoretical perspectives. It addresses different conditions that have influenced the evolution of educational systems and also highlights the functions and aims assigned to education in different political systems. One central feature of the course is thus the relationship between political aims and struggles and the design of the educational system as such.

Instruction

The course will consist of lectures and seminars

Assessment

Examination will include active participation at course sessions and oral and/or written exams

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Syllabus Revisions

Reading list

Reading list

Applies from: Spring 2022

Some titles may be available electronically through the University library.

Articles of up to 200 pages will be added by the course management

  • Beadie, Nancy Education, social Capital and State Formation in Comparative Historical Perspective : Preliminary Investigations

    Part of:

    Paedagogica historica : international journal of the history of education ...

    vol. 46 (2010) nr. 1-2 s. 15-32

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Caruso, Marc Within, Between, Above and Beyond : (Pre)positions for a History of the Internationalisationof Educational Practices and Knowledge

    Part of:

    Paedagogica historica : international journal of the history of education ...

    vol. 50 (2014) nr. 1-2

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    Mandatory

  • Comparative education review : the official organ of the Comparative education society

    42:4 (1998): pp 448-478 Mundy, Karen. "Educational Multilateralism and World (Dis)Order."

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Depaepe, Marc The Ten Commandmends of Good Practices in History of Education Research

    Zeitschrift für pädagogische Historiographie, 16(2010)

    Mandatory

  • Fuchs, Eckart The Creation of New International Networks in Education : The League of Nations and Educational Organizations in the 1920s

    Part of:

    Paedagogica historica : international journal of the history of education ...

    vol. 43 (2007) nr. 2

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    Mandatory

  • Green, Andy Education and State Formation : Europe, East Asia and the USA

    Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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    Mandatory

  • Herbst, Jurgen The History of Education : State of the Art at the Turn of the Century in europe and North America

    Part of:

    Paedagogica historica : international journal of the history of education ...

    vol. 35 (1999) nr. 3

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    Mandatory

  • History of education.

    London [etc.]: Taylor & Francis Ltd. [etc.],

    44:4 (2015): pp 415-436 Westberg, Johannes. "Multiplying the Origins of Mass Schooling: An Analysis of the Preconditions Common to Schooling and the School Building Process in Sweden, 1840-1900."

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    Mandatory

  • Holmes, Larry E. The Kremlin and the schoolhouse : reforming education in Soviet Russia, 1917-1931

    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1991

    Find in the library

    Mandatory

  • Jarausch, Konrad H. The Old 'New History of Education' : A German Reconsideration

    1986

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    Mandatory

  • Lindert, Peter H. Growing public : social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century. Vol. 1 The story

    Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004

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    Mandatory

  • Meyer, John W; Ramirez, Francisco O; Nuhoglu, Soysal Yasemin World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980

    Part of:

    Sociology of education : a journal of research in socialization and social structure : [a journal of the American Sociological Association]

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    Mandatory

  • Miller, Pavla Historiography of compulsory schooling. What is the problem?

    Part of:

    History of education : major themes. Vol. 2, Education in its social context

    London: Routledge, 2000

    s. 156-183

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    Mandatory

  • Pine, Lisa Education in Nazi Germany

    2010

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    Mandatory

  • Ramsey, Paul J Toiling together for social cohesion : International influences on the development of teacher education in the United States

    Part of:

    Paedagogica historica : international journal of the history of education ...

    vol. 50 (2014) nr. 1-2

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    Mandatory

  • Sanderson, Michael Educational and Economic History: The Good Neighbours

    2007

    in: History of Education 36:4-5 (2007): pp 429-45

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    Mandatory

  • Lauwerys, Joseph A. Scandinavian democracy : development of democratic thought and institutions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

    Copenhagen: 1958

    Arvidson, Stellan: "Education for Democracy", pp 294-315.

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    Mandatory

  • Sociology of education : a journal of research in socialization and social structure : [a journal of the American Sociological Association]

    62:4 (1989): pp 277-88 Nuhoglu Soysal, Yasemin and David Strang. "Construction of the First Mass Education Systems in Nineteenth-Century Europe."

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    Mandatory

  • Telhaug, Alfred Oftedal; Mediås, Odd Asbjorn; Aasen, Petter The Nordic Model in Education: Education as part of the political system in the last 50 years

    Part of:

    Scandinavian journal of educational research : a quarterly journal, publishing original papers from fields of study within the area of education

    vol. 50:3, s. 245-283, 29 s. (2006)

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    Mandatory

  • The journal of economic history.

    70:1 (2010): pp. 1-26 Lindert, Peter and Sun Go. "The Uneven Rise of American Public Schools to 1850."

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    Mandatory

  • The economic history review : published on behalf of the Economic History Society

    39:3 (1986): pp. 371-91 Mitch, David. "The Impact of Subsidies to Elementary Schooling on Enrolment Rates in Nineteenth-Century England."

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    Mandatory

  • Müller, Detlef K.; Ringer, Fritz K.; Simon, Brian The rise of the modern educational system : structural change and social reproduction 1870-1920

    Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press ; a Paris : b Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1987

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    Mandatory

  • Karlsson Sjögren, Åsa Agents and Subjects [Elektronisk resurs] : schooling and Conceptions of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Sweden

    2018

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    Mandatory

  • Teeland, Jan Creating social democracy : a century of the Social Democratic Labor Party in Sweden

    English transl. and rev. ed.: University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, cop. 1992

    Lindensjö, Bo: " From Liberal common school to state primary school: a main line in social democratic educational policy." pp 307-337

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    Mandatory

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