Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Aihwa Ong. Durham, NIC: Duke University Press, 1999. ix. 322 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality

The aim of the article is to present the school culture as a historical object It shows that the school culture can’t be studied with the accurate examination of the conflicting or peaceful relations they keep, each period of its history, with the set of cultures that are contemporary to it The school culture is described as a set of rules that define knowledge to be taught and conducts  to be implanted and a set of practices that permit the knowledge transmission and these behaviors incorporation The paper is circumscribed to the modern and contemporaneous period, within the 16th and 19th centuries The text is developed according to three axles, interesting perspectives to understand the school culture as a historical object: to become interested in the rules and the purposes that govern the school; evaluate the role performed by the professionalism of the teacher’s work; to become interested in the taught contents analysis and the school practices

A cultura escolar como objeto histórico

We provide a new data set on per capita book production as a proxy for advanced literacy skills, and assess this relative to other measures. While literacy proxies very basic skills, book production per capita is an indicator for more advanced capabilities. Growth theory suggests that human capital formation plays a significant role in creating the ‘wealth of nations.’ This study tests whether human capital formation has an impact on early-modern growth disparities. In contrast to some previous studies which denied the role of human capital as a crucial determinant of long-term growth, we confirm its importance.

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Book production and the onset of modern economic growth

Massive post-war migrations have posed a fundamental challenge to the nation-states of North-Western Europe. Constructing an ideal-typical model of nation-state membership, this paper begins by spe...

Immigration, citizenship, and the nation-state in france and germany: a comparative historical analysis:

We explore the hypothesis that demographic changes which began in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are at the root of the acceleration in growth rates at the dawn of the modern age. During this period, life tables for Geneva and Venice show a decline in adult mortality; French marriage registers reveal an important increase in literacy; historians measure an acceleration of economic growth. We develop an endogenous growth model with a realistic survival law in which rising longevity increases individual incentives to invest in education and fosters growth. We quantitatively estimate that the observed improvements in adult mortality account for 70% of the growth acceleration in the pre-industrial age.

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Early Mortality Declines at the Dawn of Modern Growth

L'éducation en France du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle

Comment nait une langue nationale ? La Revolution francaise a ete confrontee d'emblee au probleme linguistique, des lors que, fondant un ordre politique et social neuf, elle entendait rallier a son projet des masses patoisantes. Entre les projets federalistes de 1790 et les mesures jacobines de destruction decidees en 1793-1794, l'enquete sur les patois de l'abbe Gregoire tient une place strategique. Sous les yeux des correspondants de Gregoire, pouvoirs, savoirs et croyances bougent ensemble. Dangereux et fascinant, le monde du patois est pour eux le proche mais l'autre. Dans la geographie des Lumieres, un monde impense surgit : la campagne. Qu'est ce peuple a qui la Revolution assigne desormais la mission de faire l'histoire ? Cette campagne, a la fois jardin des origines et noire reserve de l'animalite ? Comment mobiliser un savoir local au service d'un dessein politique : le triomphe du francais, qui doit etre celui de la Nation et de la Raison ?
Paris dicte le geste qui retranche dans la marginalite et bientot le folklore les cultures regionales. Date de premiere edition : 1975.

Une politique de la langue : la Révolution française et les patois : l'enquête de Grégoire

(1995). La culture scolaire comme objet historique. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 31, The Colonial Experience in Education, pp. 353-382.

Dominique Julia

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L'éducation en France du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle

Une politique de la langue : la Révolution française et les patois : l'enquête de Grégoire

La culture scolaire comme objet historique

Histoire de l'enfance en occident

Les trois couleurs du tableau noir : la Révolution