Transnationalism, Gender and the History of Education

This is a very important new book, bringing together the work of some of the world’s leading historians of education. Lively and provoking, this volume is a timely and most welcome addition to historical research on ‘transnationalism’, showing how ideas are communicated around the globe, and how gender impacts on the construction of those ideas. This book was originally published as a special issue of the History of Education.

In the past decade, historians have begun to make use of the optic of ‘transnationalism’, a perspective used traditionally by social anthropologists and sociologists in their study of the movement and flow of ideas between continents and countries. Historical scholarship has adopted this tool, and in this book historians of education use it to add nuance and depth to research on gender and education, and particularly to the education experiences of women and girls.

The book brings together a group of internationally-regarded scholars, who are doing important research on transnationalism and the social construction of gender, with particular reference to education environments such as schools and colleges. The book is therefore very much at the cutting-edge of theoretical and methodological advances in the history of education.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the History of Education.