Abstract
Social integration through education and education policy serves as a panacea against the multifaceted social ills of modern society. As a means of integrating the nation-state through culture and ideology, as a key tool for improving political power and legitimacy through educational meritocracy and credentials, and through fueling and stimulating economic growth via human capital investment, education policy denotes a core element of the state’s sovereignty and autonomy. The assumed potential of education to improve political, economic and cultural development has made education policy increasingly important within the spectrum of national policy fields. This chapter first studies the rise of the Education State in western nations from the early beginnings in the 16th century to the heyday of the education state at the dawn of the 20th century. Then, the chapter analyzes the public discourse of education and education policy throughout the 20th century in the international press: the Frankfurter (Allgemeine) Zeitung, The Times, The New York Times and Le Figaro. Surprisingly, education coverage of national and international aspects of education has declined in the course of the 20th century. Has the rise of the Education State and the confidence in the panacea of education policy reached its limits?
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Seckendorff, Veit Ludwig von (1656). Teutscher Fuersten-Stat. In, Notger Hammerstein (1991) Staatslehre der frühen Neuzeit (237–481). Frankfurt: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag.
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The Saturday editions are the largest and most comprehensive editions of the week.
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After the Second World War Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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The Times did not have a front page in the usual sense until 1966. The first page of the paper previously contained advertising, family news and the like. We have selected the first page of the home and foreign sections instead of the first page of the paper for this period.
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Weymann, A. (2013). Integration and the Education State. Institutional History and Public Discourse in England, France, Germany, and the US. In: Windzio, M. (eds) Integration and Inequality in Educational Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6119-3_2
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