Bagchi, Barnita; Eckhardt Fuchs; Rousmaniere, Kate, ed. Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross Cultural Exchanges in Post-Colonial Education. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014.

Summary
This collection of essays highlights the interconnectedness of histories of education in the modern world. It uses a transnational history of education located in a non-Eurocentric framework to examine the encounters taking place between south Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Americas. Each chapter shows that transnational discourses and cross cultural transfer have never been unidirectional but are characterized by 'adaptation, re-conceptualization, and'' hybridization. '''

Example: Simone Holzwarth analyses the way in which Indian Independence movement perceived the ideas of Reform Pedagogy and tried to adapt them to an Indian context. Gandhi’s “Nail Talim” was proposed as the national model. It was an educational system that combined intellectual work and manual labor, with the goal of achieving Indian self sufficiency and ending the caste-based social hierarchy. The principles of Nai Talim developed in an international context of progressive education discourses. Connections between Tagore, Marjorie Sykes, and Marie Anee Peterson (Denmark).

See Also: Margaret Jacobs,