Noah W Sobe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3480459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noah W Sobe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noah W |
| FAMILY NAME | Sobe |
| SIGNATURE | SOBE N W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0741-0358 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Modest Proposal to Recuperate a Joysome History of Education
How might historians of education bring joy to their work and make our scholarship of use to the world? This article suggests returning to Welland Hendrick’s 1909 A Joysome History of Education. This minor but well-circulated text uses humour and irony to poke fun at some of the more obtuse, sacrosanct, and self-righteous aspects of education as seen from the turn-of-the-twentieth-century vantage point of a mid-level and little-known American edu…
The transnational entanglements of James Liberty Tadd’s drawing curriculum
What if children are not the future? How to support educational possibility
This essay begins from the position that the planetspeak bromide “children are the future” has been banalized far past the point any usefulness. Despite the sensible attractiveness of teaching children well and letting them lead the way, the commonplace ad nauseam linking of children to the “future” has perverse disempowering effects. And, in our current moment of conjunctive global crises, it jeopardizes the future as it actually moves us away f…
The future and the past are unevenly distributed
For half a century the UN’s principal agency on education, UNESCO, has sought to shape the world’s educational landscape through a once-every-generation global report (e.g. the Faure report of 1972 and the Delors report of 1996). The latest of these reports – the Sahle-Work Commission’s “Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education” – was developed and released amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This article considers the ways…
Education and the body
What does a focus on the body offer to historians of education? Participants at the 2016 ISCHE 38 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, USA explored this question on multiple axes and levels. Conferenc
Problematizing Comparison in a Post-Exploration Age
This article discusses the problem of comparison within comparative and international education research. It pushes back against the algorithmic and computational creep in education, arguing that if Big Data analytics replace theory, reflexivity, and critique, we are left with sterilized and atrophied comparative education research. Following a review of several business-as-usual modalities of comparison and a consideration of the colonial and po…
Reflections on Andreas Kazamias and Greek Myth
As a graduate student I had the opportunity to study with Professor Andreas Kazamias and see his dynamic teaching and scholarship in action. This short reflection piece discusses the turn to Greek literature in Kazamias’s work and the enduring relevance it has today
Reimagining Utopias
Bold Visions in Educational Research is international in scope and includes books from two areas: teaching and learning to teach and research methods in education
Travelling researchers, colonial difference
Much existing scholarship takes Marc-Antoine Jullien’s 1816/17 Esquisse et Vues Préliminaries d’un ouvrage sur L’Éducation Comparée [Sketch and Preliminary Views for a work on Comparative Education] as an epochal moment in the establishment of comparative education as a scientific field of academic study. Yet, Jullien’s plan also needs to be examined in relation to European traditions of travel and global colonial expansion – and, concurrently, t…
Challenging the Gaze
The child's attention, how this attention is reasoned about, and how attention works as a surface for pedagogical intervention are central to understanding modern schooling. This article examines "attention" as an object of knowledge related to the organization and management of individuals. I address what we might learn about attention by studying one specific Montessori classroom, the glass-walled public demonstration set up at the 1915 San Fra…
Pisa and Participation in Education
After celebrating its 45th anniversary and a productive relationship with M.E. Sharpe, European Education has just moved to a new home. As of 2015, the journal is being published by Taylor & Franci
All that is global is not world culture
This article explores why we see educational accountability systems circulating transnationally. It argues that researchers in the field of comparative and international education need to use the concepts of diffusion and translation to think about the formation, coordination and extension of networks and discursive formations through which heterogeneous, disparate objects are brought into relation. Approaching accountability in education as an ‘…
Editors' Preface to Special Guest-Edited Issue
Editors' Preface to Special Guest-Edited Issue
(2013). Editors' Preface to Special Guest-Edited Issue. European Education: Vol. 45, Governmentality (II): Making People and Rethinking Governmentality, pp. 3-3
Concentration and civilisation
The problem of how best to capture, direct, and enhance children’s abilities to pay attention has been a central feature of educational thought and practices over a long duration. And, while having students pay attention in class has been a concern of teachers across the ages, beginning in the Enlightenment we find a significant shift in educational literature and practice where the child’s attention appears less and less as a simple passing refe…
Comparative History of Education
This article discusses William W. Brickman's historical scholarship on the international circulation of educational ideas and practices by examining the ways Brickman wrote about John Dewey and his international significance as an educational thinker and reformer. The authors argue that Brickman's scholarship was rooted in an "educational transfer" problematic that prioritizes diachronic, influence-oriented studies. The result is to situate Dewey…
American Post-Conflict Educational Reform
This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings
Embodied Knowledge and the Nation
U.S. Comparative Education Research on Yugoslav Education in the 1950s and 1960s
(2006). U.S. Comparative Education Research on Yugoslav Education in the 1950s and 1960s. European Education: Vol. 38, Post-Cold War Studies in Education (II), pp. 44-64
Cultivating a ‘slavic modern’
This article presents research on the foreign travel of Yugoslav teachers, students and beekeepers in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on Yugoslavs' travels to Czechoslovakia and examines the role that notions of the 'Slavic' played in the international circulation of ideas within these particular networks. During this period one finds striking homologies between the modernization of education and the modernization of beekeeping (apiculture); the …
Movilidad, modernización y relaciones eslavas. La educación yugoslava durante las décadas de 1920 y 1930
Este artículo examina la importancia de Checoslovaquia en la modernización de la educación yugoslava en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. Durante este periodo para los yugoslavos Checoslovaquia era considerada “la nación eslava más avanzada”. Las relaciones eslavas permitieron que los yugoslavos ubicaran a Checoslovaquia como un modelo de modernidad agradable, afín y alcanzable. En el campo de la educación, esto se convirtió en una visión cultural espe…
Problematizing Comparison in a Post-Exploration Age
This article discusses the problem of comparison within comparative and international education research. It pushes back against the algorithmic and computational creep in education, arguing that if Big Data analytics replace theory, reflexivity, and critique, we are left with sterilized and atrophied comparative education research. Following a review of several business-as-usual modalities of comparison and a consideration of the colonial and po…
All that is global is not world culture
This article explores why we see educational accountability systems circulating transnationally. It argues that researchers in the field of comparative and international education need to use the concepts of diffusion and translation to think about the formation, coordination and extension of networks and discursive formations through which heterogeneous, disparate objects are brought into relation. Approaching accountability in education as an ‘…
Travelling researchers, colonial difference
Much existing scholarship takes Marc-Antoine Jullien’s 1816/17 Esquisse et Vues Préliminaries d’un ouvrage sur L’Éducation Comparée [Sketch and Preliminary Views for a work on Comparative Education] as an epochal moment in the establishment of comparative education as a scientific field of academic study. Yet, Jullien’s plan also needs to be examined in relation to European traditions of travel and global colonial expansion – and, concurrently, t…
Education and the body
What does a focus on the body offer to historians of education? Participants at the 2016 ISCHE 38 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, USA explored this question on multiple axes and levels. Conferenc
Movilidad, modernización y relaciones eslavas. La educación yugoslava durante las décadas de 1920 y 1930
Este artículo examina la importancia de Checoslovaquia en la modernización de la educación yugoslava en las décadas de 1920 y 1930. Durante este periodo para los yugoslavos Checoslovaquia era considerada “la nación eslava más avanzada”. Las relaciones eslavas permitieron que los yugoslavos ubicaran a Checoslovaquia como un modelo de modernidad agradable, afín y alcanzable. En el campo de la educación, esto se convirtió en una visión cultural espe…
Cultivating a ‘slavic modern’
This article presents research on the foreign travel of Yugoslav teachers, students and beekeepers in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on Yugoslavs' travels to Czechoslovakia and examines the role that notions of the 'Slavic' played in the international circulation of ideas within these particular networks. During this period one finds striking homologies between the modernization of education and the modernization of beekeeping (apiculture); the …
Embodied Knowledge and the Nation
U.S. Comparative Education Research on Yugoslav Education in the 1950s and 1960s
(2006). U.S. Comparative Education Research on Yugoslav Education in the 1950s and 1960s. European Education: Vol. 38, Post-Cold War Studies in Education (II), pp. 44-64
American Post-Conflict Educational Reform
This edited volume brings together historians of education and comparative education researchers to study the educational reconstruction projects that Americans have launched in post-conflict settings
Concentration and civilisation
The problem of how best to capture, direct, and enhance children’s abilities to pay attention has been a central feature of educational thought and practices over a long duration. And, while having students pay attention in class has been a concern of teachers across the ages, beginning in the Enlightenment we find a significant shift in educational literature and practice where the child’s attention appears less and less as a simple passing refe…
Comparative History of Education
This article discusses William W. Brickman's historical scholarship on the international circulation of educational ideas and practices by examining the ways Brickman wrote about John Dewey and his international significance as an educational thinker and reformer. The authors argue that Brickman's scholarship was rooted in an "educational transfer" problematic that prioritizes diachronic, influence-oriented studies. The result is to situate Dewey…
Editors' Preface to Special Guest-Edited Issue
Editors' Preface to Special Guest-Edited Issue
(2013). Editors' Preface to Special Guest-Edited Issue. European Education: Vol. 45, Governmentality (II): Making People and Rethinking Governmentality, pp. 3-3
All that is global is not world culture
This article explores why we see educational accountability systems circulating transnationally. It argues that researchers in the field of comparative and international education need to use the concepts of diffusion and translation to think about the formation, coordination and extension of networks and discursive formations through which heterogeneous, disparate objects are brought into relation. Approaching accountability in education as an ‘…
Pisa and Participation in Education
After celebrating its 45th anniversary and a productive relationship with M.E. Sharpe, European Education has just moved to a new home. As of 2015, the journal is being published by Taylor & Franci
Challenging the Gaze
The child's attention, how this attention is reasoned about, and how attention works as a surface for pedagogical intervention are central to understanding modern schooling. This article examines "attention" as an object of knowledge related to the organization and management of individuals. I address what we might learn about attention by studying one specific Montessori classroom, the glass-walled public demonstration set up at the 1915 San Fra…
Reimagining Utopias
Bold Visions in Educational Research is international in scope and includes books from two areas: teaching and learning to teach and research methods in education
Travelling researchers, colonial difference
Much existing scholarship takes Marc-Antoine Jullien’s 1816/17 Esquisse et Vues Préliminaries d’un ouvrage sur L’Éducation Comparée [Sketch and Preliminary Views for a work on Comparative Education] as an epochal moment in the establishment of comparative education as a scientific field of academic study. Yet, Jullien’s plan also needs to be examined in relation to European traditions of travel and global colonial expansion – and, concurrently, t…
Education and the body
What does a focus on the body offer to historians of education? Participants at the 2016 ISCHE 38 Annual Conference in Chicago, IL, USA explored this question on multiple axes and levels. Conferenc
Problematizing Comparison in a Post-Exploration Age
This article discusses the problem of comparison within comparative and international education research. It pushes back against the algorithmic and computational creep in education, arguing that if Big Data analytics replace theory, reflexivity, and critique, we are left with sterilized and atrophied comparative education research. Following a review of several business-as-usual modalities of comparison and a consideration of the colonial and po…
Reflections on Andreas Kazamias and Greek Myth
As a graduate student I had the opportunity to study with Professor Andreas Kazamias and see his dynamic teaching and scholarship in action. This short reflection piece discusses the turn to Greek literature in Kazamias’s work and the enduring relevance it has today
The future and the past are unevenly distributed
For half a century the UN’s principal agency on education, UNESCO, has sought to shape the world’s educational landscape through a once-every-generation global report (e.g. the Faure report of 1972 and the Delors report of 1996). The latest of these reports – the Sahle-Work Commission’s “Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education” – was developed and released amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This article considers the ways…
What if children are not the future? How to support educational possibility
This essay begins from the position that the planetspeak bromide “children are the future” has been banalized far past the point any usefulness. Despite the sensible attractiveness of teaching children well and letting them lead the way, the commonplace ad nauseam linking of children to the “future” has perverse disempowering effects. And, in our current moment of conjunctive global crises, it jeopardizes the future as it actually moves us away f…
The transnational entanglements of James Liberty Tadd’s drawing curriculum
A Modest Proposal to Recuperate a Joysome History of Education
How might historians of education bring joy to their work and make our scholarship of use to the world? This article suggests returning to Welland Hendrick’s 1909 A Joysome History of Education. This minor but well-circulated text uses humour and irony to poke fun at some of the more obtuse, sacrosanct, and self-righteous aspects of education as seen from the turn-of-the-twentieth-century vantage point of a mid-level and little-known American edu…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Higher education (5 works)