Building Europe through Education, Building Education through Europe: Actors, Spaces and Pedagogies in a Historical Perspective

The volume deals with the history of European education policies from a multi- and inter-disciplinary perspective. The contributions collected in the first part of the volume highlight the role of education in the process of European cooperation and integration. The purpose of this is to offer an overview of the actors, spaces, educational projects, and pedagogies that have been designed to promote the European project and build Europeans, and which have been involved in the creation of a European supranational community from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Most of these various initiatives are rooted in a campaigning educational project: “Education for Europe”. In the second part of the book, the contributions question, in a mirror effect, the repercussions of the European integration process on education. The aim, here, is to analyse how the process of European integration impacted on the educational sphere and to what extent European policies affected national education systems in the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Individually and as a whole, these contributions focus on international actors and networks that have been at the heart of the processes of developing “European education”.