Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

De Michele, Grazia, Anti-Southern Racism and Education in Post-War Italy. (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Italy) 264 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-911>
ISBN 978-0-367-60792-0 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book investigates the racism against Southern Italian children attending North-Western primary schools between the 1950s and the 1970s. Turin serves as the main case study, having become the "third Southern city" after Naples and Palermo during the considered period.Far from being a new phenomenon, racism against Southern Italians gained renewed prominence in the context of the post-war mass internal migrations, becoming one of the pillars of the process of nation-rebuilding. However, in spite of its relevance, it has not received the attention it deserves.By drawing on a wide range of sources - printed, archival, photographic, and oral - and situating itself at the intersection of the history of racism, of education, of psychiatry, and of psychology, the book aims to fill this gap and to add to the debate on the borders that nation-states establish to control the access to power of the different groups inhabiting their territories. Its interdisciplinarity makes it suitable for students and researchers across a variety of subject areas.

Flury, Carmen / Geiss, Michael, (eds.), How Computers Entered the Classroom, 1960-2000: Historical Perspectives. (Studies in the History of Education and Culture 2) 200 S. 2023:5 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <687-956>
ISBN 978-3-11-077959-2 hard ¥22,350.- (税込) EUR 94.95 *

In the history of education, the question of how computers were introduced into European classrooms has so far been largely neglected. This edited volume strives to address this gap. The contributions shed light on the computerization of education from a historical perspective, by attending closely to the different actors involved - such as politicians, computer manufacturers, teachers, and students -, political rationales and ideologies, as well as financial, political, or organizational structures and relations. The case studies highlight differences in political and economic power, as well as in ideological reasoning and the priorities set by different stakeholders in the process of introducing computers into education. However, the contributions also demonstrate that simple cold war narratives fail to capture the complex dynamics and entanglements in the history of computers as an educational technology and a subject taught in schools. The edited volume thus provides a comprehensive historical understanding of the role of education in an emerging digital society.

Han, Xueyuan, Educational Borrowing: Sino-German Exchange in Higher Technical Education (1921-1941). (Schriften zur Kulturgeschichte 61) 266 S. 2022:9 (Kovac, GW) <687-957>
ISBN 978-3-339-13076-1 paper ¥22,551.- (税込) EUR 95.80 *

Pasewalck, Silke / Eidukeviciene, Ruta u. a. (Hrsg.), Baltische Bildungsgeschichte(n). (Schriften des Bundesinstituts fuer Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im oestlichen Europa 78) 450 S. 2022:8 (de Gruyter, GW) <687-958>
ISBN 978-3-11-099867-2 paper ¥11,757.- (税込) EUR 49.95 *

Fuer die baltischen Laender ist Bildung ein Schluesselthema, das ihre Geschichte und ihr Selbstverstaendnis sowohl im Hinblick auf die Fremdbestimmung als auch auf die eigene Staatenbildung betrifft. Im Zuge von Handelskontakten, Christianisierung, Ordenskriegen und Rechtsimport gerieten die autochthonen Voelkerschaften des baltischen Raums unter kulturelle, sprachliche und politische Einfluesse unterschiedlichen Gewichts. Sie waren dadurch zum Teil gewaltvollen Formierungsprozessen ausgesetzt. Im vorliegenden Band wird das Baltikum in Geschichte und Gegenwart aus der Perspektive eines weit gefassten Bildungsbegriffs untersucht. Die Beitraege stammen aus der Feder von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Estland, Lettland, Litauen und Deutschland, insbesondere der Germanistik, aber auch der Geschichte, Bildungsgeschichte, Rechtsgeschichte, Slavistik und Komparatistik. Der Band zeigt wesentliche Aspekte der baltischen Bildungsgeschichte und ihrer Narrationen an beispielhaften Analysen und Fallstudien fuer alle drei baltischen Laender auf.