Classroom Struggle ─ Organizing Elementary School Teaching in the 19th Century

This volume contains 11 essays on the organization of elementary school classrooms in the 19th century, before age groups defined classes and classes became the basic unit for the organization of schools. Education researchers from Europe, Brazil, and Australia examine political and economic contexts, such as social and political actors in the mutual system of education in Denmark, the economic difficulties of Chile in the introduction of the mutual system, and the difficulties faced in Belgium regarding the mutual system; the challenge of producing and imposing differentiations and rules in teaching practices in the mutual system of education in Brazil, Sweden, and Mexico; and different designs for the organization of teaching in Italy, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Marcelo Caruso is Professor of History of Education at Humboldt University, Berlin. His research interests focus on technologies of compulsory schooling and their transnational circulation, the transformation of educational cultures, and the historical relations between politics and education.