Acknowledgements - Introduction - Postmodernism and State Education - Education and State Formation in Europe and Asia - Technical Education and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century England and France - The Roles of the State and the Social Partners in Vocational Education and Training Systems - Education and Cultural Identity in the United Kingdom - Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems - Education, Globalization and the Nation State - Notes - Bibliography - Index

Andy Green develops on his earlier historical work on Education and State Formation in a study of education and the nation state in an era of globalization. Education, Globalization and the Nation State offers the first sustained analysis of the implications of globalization for modern education systems. In a series of historical and comparative essays ranging from Europe to America and Asia, Green assesses the changing relations between education and the nation state in different regions, and concludes that the national education system is far from obsolete.