This was the first book which globally surveyed the impact of the Second World War on schooling. It offers fascinating comparisons of the impact of total war, both in terms of physical disruption and its effects on the ideology of schooling. By analysing the effects on the education systems of each of the participant nations the contributors throw new light on the responses made in different parts of the globe to the challenge of world-wide conflict.
Education in England during World War II, Roy Lowe; schooling for little
soldiers - German education in World War II, Geoffrey Giles; Soviet schools
in the great patriotic war, John Dunstan; schooling Uncle Sam's children -
education in the USA, 1941-45, Ronald D. Cohen; education in wartime Japan,
1937-45, Richard Rubinger; Italian education during World War II - remnants
of failed Fascist education, seeds of the new schools, Richard J. Wolff; war
and educational reconstruction in Belgium, France and the Netherlands,
1940-47, Guy Neave; education as resistance - the Polish experience of
schooling during the war, Jozef Krasuski; war and peace - the effects of
World War II on Hungarian education, Attila Horvath; the impact of World War
II on education in Britain's colonial empire, Clive Whitehead; World War II
and the secondary school curriculum - a comparative study of the USA and
Australia, Andrew Spaull; the Scottish school system, educational reform and
World War II, John Lloyd; "Our dear Channel Islands" - a survey of education
in Jersey during the German occupation, 1940-45, Janet Likeman; re-education
- remedial training in democratic modes of thought and behaviour - the
re-education scheme of the British military government in the administrative
district of Cologne (1946), Hans Jurgen Apel.
Roy Lowe (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) (Edited by)