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

Hall, Andrew / Yuh, Leighanne (eds.), Education, Language and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Modern Korea, 1875-1945. (Brill's Korean Studies Library 6) 240 pp. 2022:12 (Brill, NE) <688-833>
ISBN 978-90-04-51254-2 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) EUR 100.00

Education, the production of knowledge, identity formation, and ideological hegemony are inextricably linked in early modern and modern Korea. This study examines the production and consumption of knowledge by a multitude of actors and across languages, texts, and disciplines to analyze the formulation, contestation, and negotiation of knowledge. The production and dissemination of knowledge become sites for contestation and struggle-sometimes overlapping, at other times competing-resulting in a shift from a focus on state power and its control over knowledge and discourse to an analysis of local processes of knowledge production and the roles local actors play in them. Contributors are Daniel Pieper, W. Scott Wells, Yong-Jin Hahn, Furukawa Noriko, Lim Sang Seok, Kokubu Mari, Mark Caprio, Deborah Solomon, and Yoonmi Lee.

Phipps, Pauline A., A Victorian Educational Pioneer's Evangelicalism, Leadership, and Love: Maynard's Mistakes. 180 pp. 2022:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <688-1143>
ISBN 978-3-031-13998-7 hard ¥10,936.- (税込) EUR 44.99

This book examines the relatively unknown English late-Victorian educational pioneer, Constance Louisa Maynard (1849-1935), whose innovative London-based Westfield College produced the first female BAs in the mid-1880s. An atypical and powerful woman, Maynard is also notable for her unique knowledge of psychology and patriotic Evangelicalism, both of which profoundly shaped her ambitions and passions. In contrast to most history about an individual's life, this book builds a fascinating life story based upon evidence and clues from minutia. The focus is on nine enigmatic actions motivated by Maynard in her quests for educational leadership, global conversion, and same-sex love. Maynard's acts that she called "mistakes," caused deep enmities with administrators and college women. Yet amid her trials and conflicts Maynard made key decisions about her public and private life. Moreover, her so-called mistakes reveal astonishing new insights into a past mindset and the rapidly changing world in which Maynard lived.

Doff, Sabine / Smith, Richard (eds.), Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching: 20th-century Historical Perspectives. (Languages and Culture in History) 2022:11 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <688-1164>
ISBN 978-94-6372-204-9 hard ¥33,719.- (税込) GB￡ 117.00

This book brings together studies from Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, and the UK which explore links between policy and practice in language teaching in the twentieth century. The 14 contributions set out to expand the remit of 'grounded history' within the field of History of Language Learning and Teaching (HoLLT) by focusing on language teaching policies and linking these to practices and to contexts, situating policy formulation in particular contexts on the one hand, and exploring the relationship between policy and practice on the other. In this sense, the book shows how the theories, policy pronouncements, curricula, textbooks, and overall teaching approaches which tend to feature in most histories of language teaching always emerge from particular, researchable contexts, and, in the other direction, are interpreted and responded to in practice, again, in particular contexts. In this way, we hope to contribute a context-based perspective that highlights diversity of practices, in opposition to received views that language teaching methodology is 'universal' and context-free.

Ridderikhoff, Cornelia M. / Ridder-Symoens, Hilde (eds.), Les registres-matricules de la nation germanique de l'ancienne Universite d'Orleans, 1602-1689: Avec un supplement 1721-1781. (Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 59) 640 pp. 2022:12 (Brill, NE) <688-1167>
ISBN 978-90-04-52947-2 hard ¥44,487.- (税込) EUR 183.00

In 1602 the Germanic nations decided to separate the registration of new members from the 'texte des rapports' in the Livres des procurateurs, 1444-1602. The 'registres-matricules' that were subsequently utilised (Archives Departementales du Loiret D 242 and D 243) show that in the seventeenth century a large group of young people from many countries found their way to Orleans, as students at the famous law school.