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Course title: Exploring the Comparative Reason of Comparative Studies (OK?_

• Curriculum, Knowledge and the Making Differences: An Introduction

Watch:    BBC: Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School (parts 1-4)

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• the Study of Schooling and The “Reason”.  Or, Why not talk about learning, professional development children’s “Well-Being” and gettings jobs?

Reading:

Popkewitz, T. (2014). Social Epistemology, the Reason of “Reason” and the Curriculum Studies. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 22(22). http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v22n22.2014

*Sobe, N. & Kowalczyk, J. (2012). The problem of context in comparative education. ECPS. http://www.ledonline.it/ECPS-Juornal/

(3) Making the Nation, Visioning the Citizen, and School Reform

Readings:   Caride, E. G. (2017). The making of the Argentinean citizen in the birth of the republic. In A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge (pp. 25-37). Routledge.

Popkewitz, T. S. (2020). Salvation, redemption & desire in the making of the nation. In Wissen in der Transnationalisierung (pp. 55-80). transcript-Verlag.

*Popkewitz, T. S., & Martins, C. S. (2014). New spaces of collective belonging, memory and its fears: Fabricating the self and “others”. Crisis in education: Modern trends and issues, 181-202.

(4) School Subjects, The Alchemy of School Subjects: Science & Mathematics Education

Read:     Diaz, J. (2014). Back to the basics: Inventing the mathematical self. In The Reason of Schooling (pp. 200-215). Routledge.

*Popkewitz. (2018). What Is 'really' taught as the content of school subjects? Teaching school subjects as an alchemy. The High School Journal, 101(2), 77-89.

Zhang, Y. & Popkewitz, T. “Making up of Child” through English Language Education in Early Modern China (1862-1949)

(5)Teacher Education Reforms and the Sciences of Practice

Read:     *Lee, S. Y. (2021). Seeing the difference: Anticipatory reasoning of observation and its double gesture in teacher education. Curriculum Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2021.1877518

Fendler, L. (2003). Teacher reflection in a hall of mirrors:  Historical influences and political reverberations. Educational Researcher, 32(3), 3-15.

(6) The Politics of Comparing:

Read:     *Steinmetz, Willibald. (2019). Above/Below, better/worse or simply different? Metamorphoses of social comparison, 1600-1900.  In Willibald Steinmetz (Ed.), The force of comparison: A new perspective on modern European history and the contemporary world (pp. 81-112). New York: Berghahn

Mignolo, Walter D. (2013). On comparison: Who Is comparing what and why? In Rita Felski & Susan Stanford Friedman. Comparison: Theories, approaches, uses (pp.99-119).   Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

(7) Making Kinds of People, Indigeneity and the Question of Diversity

Read:     López, L. L. L. (2014). Historicizing the Guatemalan Projection and Protection of the “Indian”. The Reason of Schooling: Historicizing Curriculum Studies, Pedagogy, and Teacher Education, 229.

*Popkewitz, T. S. (2009). The double gestures of cosmopolitanism and comparative studies of education. In International handbook of comparative education (pp. 385-401). Springer, Dordrecht.

(8) Calculating the Future as Empirical Research

1. Popkewitz, T. S., Feng, J., & Zheng, L. (2018). Calculating the future: The historical assemblage of empirical evidence, benchmarks & PISA. ECNU Review of Education, 1(1), 107-118.
2. Popkewitz, T. S. (in press). Comparative Reasoning, Fabrication, and International Education Assessments: Desires about Nations, Society, and Populations.  International Journal of Educational Research

(9) Translation and Comparative Studies: Indigenous Foreigners and Traveling Libraries.

1. Popkewitz, T. (2021). The study of education as a historical event. On rethinking research with the help of Marc Depaepe. In Van Ruyskensvelde, F. Herman, G. Thyssen, A. Van Gorp, & P. Verstraete (Eds.), The past, present, and future: Contemporary histories of education. (pp. 109-129). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
2. Popkewitz, T. (2020). How theory acts as the retrieval apparatus in methods: Historical thoughts on romanticized intellectual practices. In T. Fitzgerald (Ed.), Handbook of historical studies in education: Debates, tensions and directions (pp. 153 – 169). Singapore: Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0942-6_9-1
3. Popkewitz, T. (2019) “Transnational as Comparative History: (Un)Thinking Difference in the Self and Others,” The Transnational in the History of Education, Global Histories of Education E. Fuchs and E. Roldán Vera (eds.). Palgrave. Chapter 10.

(10) Schooling and Making Kinds of People and Distributing Differences

Martins. C. (2018) Genius as an historical event: Its making as a statistical object and instrument for governing schooling.  In Lindblad, S. Pettersson, D. and Popkewitz, T. (Eds.), Education by The numbers and the making of society. The expertise of international assessments. New York: Routledge.

(11) Visual Cultures:

Sepkoski, D. (2018). Data in time: Statistics, natural history, and the visualization of temporal data. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 48(5), 581-593.

Friedrich, D and Arata N. (2017) “Schooling, Pedagogical Imaginaries, and Latin American Childhoods in Resonances of El Chavo del 8 in Latin American Childhood, Schooling. (19-35).