Education and Modernisation in Greece

Modernising Greek History During the Cold War

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21409623
AutoresWilliam New (0000-0002-5433-3228, Beloit College, autor correspondente), Loucas Petronicolos (University of Wisconsin)
Ano2025
Volume54
Fascículo6
Páginas712-734
Data de publicação2025-11-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory of Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0046-760X • E-ISSN: 1464-5130
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0046760x.2025.2517224
OpenAlexW4412095187
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas32

This paper shows how the reform of Greek education fails to affect meaningful change in schools and the policies that govern them or even pushes the majority of the population farther from the putative goals of “modernization.” Our primary source material is a monograph on the history of Greek education published in 1974, focused on the reform process of 1959–64, by Andreas Kazamias, a Greek-Cypriot-American scholar, in conjunction with Greek intellectual and policymaker Evangelos Papanoutsos. Kazamias casts himself as the always-already modern subject in contrast to the backwardness of Greek conservatives. Papanoutsos presents an identity of an entirely European Greek who has transcended the identity confusion of the traditional (and conservative) Greek. We argue that these historical accounts of Greek education reform, together with a liberal rationalisation for modern Greek humanism, should be interpreted as instances of ideology in the service of Western hegemony

Ancient history · Cold war · Economic history · History of education · Modernization theory · Political science · Politics · Australian History and Society · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law