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

Carlson, Jessamy, Approved Schools for Girls in England, 1933-1973: 'Girls will be Girls'. (Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood) 293 pp. 2024:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-1370>
ISBN 978-3-031-65107-6 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides a detailed study of approved schools for girls, which operated in England and Wales between 1933-1973. Through original archival research, it traces shifting perceptions of, and policy responses to, girls' delinquency and vulnerability during a period of remarkable social change. It examines the transition of provision for girls and young women 'in trouble' from the large-scale post-Victorian reformatories to the therapeutic Community Homes for Education, and the emergence of a 'diagnostic shift' in the provision of care for children in the juvenile secure estate. Through examining the experiences of younger children, it provides a more nuanced understanding of the role approved schools played for girls in need of care, protection, or control during this period, evidencing the gendered use of care-or-protection orders throughout, and the policing of child and family behaviours under the guises of the Education Act.

Grek, Sotiria / Landahl, Joakim / Lawn, Martin et al., The World as a Laboratory: Torsten Husen and the Rise of Transnational Research in Education 1950s-1990s. (Global Histories of Education) 204 pp. 2024:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-1409>
ISBN 978-3-031-68089-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book covers the construction of international education research community in the 1950s-1990s, and the growth of its 'disembedded' laboratory i.e. networks, spaces, materiality, travelling, translations. The book follows a sociology of science theoretical framework in order to examine the research-archive of the Swedish internationally renowned educational scholar Torsten Husen (1916-2009). The archive reveals the shifting and heterogenous transnational networks that contribute to the development of social science research beyond fixed time and space dimensions, and that extends social science beyond individual ideas, researchers, environments, institutions and universities. These are practices that create, mobilise, sustain and challenge relations between actors in innovations, knowledge creation and various social activities. In other words, the archive represents the socio-material manifestation not only of the intellectual trajectory of a key education actor but the growing organisation of a whole scientific field at the time.

O'Doherty, Teresa / O'Connor, Liam / O'Donoghue, Tom, P. W. Joyce and the Educational Shaping of the Emerging Irish Nation, 1827-1914. (Historical Studies in Education) 274 pp. 2024:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-1410>
ISBN 978-3-031-67375-7 hard ¥35,306.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book provides an exposition on the professional and cultural life of Patrick Weston Joyce (1827-1914), more popularly known as P. W. Joyce, who lived and worked during the final phase of British rule in Ireland. The focus throughout is very much on how family, locale, and schooling influenced this significant Irish patriot, polymath, and pioneering pedagogue who worked across a range of disciplines, including education, language, history, and music. Moreover, attention is paid to how his achievements were possible only because of the variety of leading roles he played in the development of the Irish National School System between 1845 and 1893. Thus positioned, Joyce was in many ways a significant choreographer of a slow revolution in which education, in both formal and informal settings, was used to educate the Irish people regarding their cultural heritage.

Powell, Edwin Patrick, Elementary Education in English Periodicals, 1833-1880: Educational Turning Points. 220 pp. 2024:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-1411>
ISBN 978-3-031-70013-2 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth century. This book's central argument is that the periodical press provided a unique cultural space for literary and intellectual contributions to sustained debates about education. Furthermore, political, economic, social, religious, literary, and cultural developments converged with pivotal educational turning points featured in periodicals that affirmed the creative force of education. However, relatively little scholarly attention has been given to periodicals as a medium for exploring the tension between competing educational ideas and practices in Victorian England. This book therefore reassesses elementary education through the new literary perspectives of periodical culture.

Raftery, Deirdre / Spencer, Stephanie (eds.), Intersectionality, Transnationalism, and the History of Education: Networks, Time, and Place. (Global Histories of Education) 305 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-1412>
ISBN 978-3-031-70629-5 hard ¥37,660.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This volume brings together a diverse range of contributors to explore the significance of intersectionality and transnationalism, with reference to the history of education. The chapters cover a range of educational spaces and places and demonstrate the possibilities that theoretical approaches can offer to scholars at all levels of their academic career. The chapters focus specifically on women's activism in order to maintain a coherent framework of research that is brought together in an introduction and concluding thoughts. The significance of gender as relational and a symbol of power ensures that men and masculinities are not overlooked but recognized as integral to understanding gender dynamics as they affected women's education and the ways in which that education took place.

Cleophas, Francois Johannes, Physical Education and Physical Culture in South Africa, 1837-1966. (Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics) 340 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-1128>
ISBN 978-3-031-66726-8 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

The interconnectedness between sport and colonialism has long been a matter of interest to sport historians. Consequently, a large number of scholarly works exist on physical education and physical culture history, but there is no significant work on this within a South African context, both nationally and at community level. This book therefore provides the first historical account of physical education and physical culture in Cape Town, South Africa and its surrounding areas in the Western Cape.