Education in Spain: Assessments and Shadows

In European Education's most recent edition, two of the papers highlighted education in Spain. Laura C. Engel's paper "Steering the National: Exploring the Education Policy Uses of PISA in Spain" presents findings from a recent study of the education policy uses and impact of international large-scale assessments. The findings from her paper add to a growing body of scholarly work looking at the ways that international assessments guide education policy within national spaces.

Ariadne Runte-Geidel and Pedro Femia Marzo have written a paper examining the use of shadow education by students in Spain over a ten-year period at the turn of this century. They look specifically at the number of students that use this shadow education system and the way that it has evolved during this period. Their study helpfully contrasts the data on the use of extra classes with the socioeconomic profile of students and other indicators of social inequality.

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Table of Contents Volume 47 Number 2 (Summer 2015)

EDITORIAL: PISA and Participation in Education
Iveta Silova & Noah W. Sobe
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1043172P

Steering the National: Exploring the Education Policy Uses of PISA in Spain
Laura C. Engel
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1033913

Shadow Education in Spain: Examining Social Inequalities Through the Analysis of PISA Results
Ariadne Runte-Geidel & Pedro Femia Marzo
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1033667

Ideas, Institutions, and School Curricula: Explaining Variation Between England and France
Leah Haus
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1033604

Children’s Participation in Slovene Preschools: The Teachers’ Viewpoints and Practice
Marcela Batistič Zorec
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1039878

University Graduates’ Skills Mismatches in Central Asia: Employers’ Perspectives From Post-Soviet Tajikistan
Dilrabo Jonbekova
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1033315

BOOK REVIEWS
Pedagogized Muslimness: Religion and Culture as Identity Politics in the Classroom. Religious Diversity and Education in Europe, Band 27 by Mette Buchardt
Shabana Mir
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1033224

Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education by Michael Gray
E. Doyle Stevick
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1033226

CESE NEWS Equity In and Through Education: Changing Contexts, Consequences, and Contestations
DOI:10.1080/10564934.2015.1035025

European Education in the Philippines

The most recent addition of European Education features four great papers that each discuss the ways that European education was implemented outside of Europe. One of these is by Erin P. Hardacker. She is a doctoral student in Educational Policy Studies and Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests include colonial education systems and policies, civic and language education in American and colonial contexts, and the history of childhood. Her paper is entitled "The Impact of Spain’s Educational Decree of 1863 on the Spread of Philippine Public Schools and Language Acquisition." An abstract is provided below, and if it piques your interest, you can find out more about subscriptions here.

"The Impact of Spain’s Educational Decree of 1863 on the Spread of Philippine Public Schools and Language Acquisition"

The Educational Decree of 1863 was an effort by Spain to reform the Philippine colonial education system. The Decree established a complete system of education in the archipelago—it required two elementary schools in each municipality (one for girls and one for boys), standardized the curriculum, and established normal schools, thus making systematized education available to the masses. In the nineteenth century, educational opportunities opened to a segment of society previously kept under control by the religious orders through a selective curriculum of rudimentary academics and a heavy dose of catechism. The colonial logic was to create a cadre of clerks and officials in service of the new, liberal colonial state, but the Educational Decree of 1863 had an impact the reverse of what Spain intended. The formal system of education created in the Philippines under Spain, even when unevenly implemented, provided Filipinos with the tools to function outside of colonial rule.

Table of Contents Volume 44 Number 4 (Winter 2012-2013)

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European Education Outside Europe: Historical Perspectives on Perceptions and Practices

Editorial Introduction
European Education Outside Europe: Historical Perspectives on Perceptions and Practices
MARCELO CARUSO AND NOAH W. SOBE
The Impact of Spain's 1863 Educational Decree on the Spread of Philippine Public Schools and Language Acquisition
ERIN P. HARDACKER
Creating Germans Abroad
White Education and the Colonial Condition in German Southwest Africa, 1894-1914
DANIEL JOSEPH WALTHER
Seeking the Educational Cure
Egypt and European Education, 1805-1920s
HODA A. YOUSEF
Europe Refracted: Western Education and Knowledge in China
BARBARA SCHULTE