This book is a comparative history that explores the social,
cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the
construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems
arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across
four continents during the period from the late eighteenth century
to the early twentieth century. The authors begin with the
republican preoccupation with civic virtue - the need to overcome
self-interest in order to take up the common interest - which
requires a form of education that can produce individuals who are
capable of self-guided rational action for the public good. They
then ask how these educational preoccupations led to the emergence
of modern school systems in a disparate array of national contexts,
even those that were not republican. By examining historical
changes in republicanism across time and space, the authors explore
central epistemologies that connect the modern individual to
community and citizenship through the medium of schooling. Ideas of
the individual were reformulated in the nineteenth century in
reaction to new ideas about justice, social order, and progress,
and the organization and pedagogy of the school turned these
changes into a way to transform the self into the citizen.
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