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

Fuller, Steve, To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation. (Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices) 194 pp. 2024:10 (Springer, GW) <736-1320>
ISBN 978-3-031-76016-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book argues that judging and justifying are the two skills that specifically require academic training. In the current times, where the value of a university degree is increasingly questioned, it's important to emphasize the significance of these skills. This volume addresses that universities are not necessarily stressing these skills, preferring instead to focus on the delivery of 'content' and the provision of 'credentials'. Its main focus is on articulating the positive case for the university's focus on judging and explaining as its core 'transferable skills.' It involves examining the historical and philosophical case for this claim, canvassing arguments made - and the example set -- by Plato, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, William Whewell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Feyerabend, Richard Rorty, John Rawls and Robert Nozick - as well as considering how they might be realized in today's world. This book extends the arguments in Fuller's recent book, Back to the University's Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt (Springer, 2023).

Johnes, Martin, Welsh Not: Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Nineteenth-Century Wales. 440 pp. 2024:10 (U. Wales Pr., UK) <736-1321>
ISBN 978-1-83772-180-1 paper ¥5,716.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Welsh Not: Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Wales for free, follow the link below Welsh Not: Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Wales This book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. The Welsh Not was a wooden token given to children caught speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools. It was often accompanied by corporal punishment, and is widely thought to have been responsible for the decline of the Welsh language. Despite having an iconic status in popular understandings of Wales's history, there has never before been a study of where, when and why the Welsh Not was used. This book is an account of the different ways children were punished for speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools and the consequences of this for children, communities and the linguistic future of Wales. It shows how the exclusion of Welsh was not only traumatic for pupils but also hindered them in learning English - the very opposite of what it was meant to achieve. Gradually, Welsh came to be used increasingly in Victorian schools, making them more humane places but also more effective mechanisms in the anglicisation of Wales.

Siskin, H. Jay, The History of Language Teaching from The Spanish-American War Until the Sputnik Moment: From Hot to Cold Wars. 297 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1322>
ISBN 978-3-031-75055-7 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book highlights the lively exchanges that shaped foreign-language pedagogy and educational policy during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. It is critically important to revivify our past, particularly in a field where innovation is conceptualized as progress and where knowledge production is a criterion for success. Modern language teaching began its ascendancy shortly before the turn of the twentieth century. In the academy, this impulse was marked by the founding of the Modern Language Association in 1883. Modern languages were increasingly recognized as possessing the mental and humanistic values that had formerly been the sole province of Greek and Latin. The book provides an overview of the historical, political, and social concerns that preoccupied the nation from 1898 and provides a context for analyzing the developments in the teaching of foreign languages over the course of the following century.

Volmering, Nicole / Dunne, Claire / Walsh, J. et al. (eds.), Irish in Outlook: A Hundred Years of Irish Education. (Reimagining Ireland 130) 334 pp. 2024:8 (P. Lang, SZ) <736-1323>
ISBN 978-1-80374-090-4 paper ¥15,549.- (税込) SFR 62.00

This volume marks the 2022 centenary of the first National Programme for Education in the Free State. Central to the outlook of the new educational programme was the position of the Irish language as a marker of Irish national identity and culture. Education was to be the means to revitalise the language and cultural nationalism eroded through years of Anglicisation. This principal aim had far-reaching consequences for the shape of the education system, its educational programme, and for the survival of Irish into the twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the centrality of the Irish language and the desired in education, touching on key developments within Irish language education, educational policy and the role of Irish in society over the past hundred years.