@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems
Post #2306263
2026-03-17 06:03 UTC
@young_harbinger@social.treehouse.systems This has been true from the very beginning of the compulsory project, if we're honest. There's an old but pretty good book on this one (Schooling in Western Europe by Mary Jo Maynes—this should be available on Internet Archive, but I've also got a PDF somewhere) that provides a good background, including on a lot of our own assumptions (and even if not applicable to everywhere, as the title makes evident, it still provides some good avenues of exploration for figuring out where to look for other geographical locations, especially as schooling systems are intricately connected to varying forms of colonialism and imperialism—and a lot of shifts in education reforms also are a result of additional forms of colonialism and imperialism, along with competing nationalisms).
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@young_harbinger@social.treehouse.systems 2026-03-21 16:36
@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems so true!! if you've a reference for your parenthetical, i'd really be interested in that! much of my studies so far have focused on capitalism's drive for school reform, but i've not read enough of the colonial/imperial import into schooling
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@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social 2026-03-21 18:17
@whatanerd@social.treehouse.systems @young_harbinger@social.treehouse.systems The book is also available on Anna's. https://annas-archive.gl/md5/809527bc3b73349928a843b06fad920f#