Introduction : languages of education
The educationalization of the modern world : progress, passion, and the Protestant promise of education
Protestant misunderstandings : Max Weber and the Protestant ethic in America
Rousseau's classical republicanism
Linguistic turbulences : the American debates, 1776-1788
American culture, pragmatism, and the 'Kingdom of God on earth?'
Language as homeland : the Genevan reception of pragmatism
The becoming of an educational science : the Protestant souls and psychologies
The German geisteswissenschaftliche Pädagogik and the ideology of Bildung
Languages of education compared : Germany, Switzerland, and the United States
Globalizing globalization : the neo-institutional concept of a world culture
Concepts, cultures, and comparisons : PISA and the double German discontentment.