Languages of education : Protestant legacies, national identities, and global aspirations / Daniel Tröhler

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: languages of education -- The educationalization of the modern world: progress, passion, and the Protestant promise of education -- Protestant misunderstandings: Max Weber and the Protestant ethic in America -- Rousseau's classical republicanism -- Linguistic turbulences: the American debates, 1776-1788 -- Pragmatism, American culture, and the "Kingdom of God on earth? -- Language as homeland: the Genevan reception of pragmatism -- The becoming of an educational science: the Protestant souls and psychologies -- The German geisteswissenschaftliche Pä̈dagogik and the ideology of Bildung -- Languages of education compared: Germany, Switzerland, and the United States -- Globalizing globalization: the neo-institutional concept of a world culture -- The discomposure of the inward certainty: Germany's double discontent with Pisa