The World Educational Revolution, 1950-1970

World Expansion of Mass Education, 1870-1980

“…It arose later in industrialized Britain than in lessdeveloped Scotland and Prussia and arose as rapidly in the American West as in the industrialized East. In analyses of the growth of primary educational enrollment-after World War II, neither industrialization nor such social organizational correlates as urbanization show substantial effects (see, for example, Meyer et al 1977).…”

El Currículo Escolar y su Abordaje desde la Teoría de la Sociedad Mundial: Revisión y Prospectiva

“…Esta visión analiza la adopción de políticas como proceso de emulación o difusión, enfatizando las relaciones causales a nivel sistémico, totalmente externas a los actores. El desarrollo y las aplicaciones políticas de esta vertiente han sido examinados empíricamente con los casos de convergencia transnacional de políticas sobre gestión educativa y de estándares curriculares escolares (Meyer, Ramírez, Rubinson & Boli-Bennett, 1977;Benavot, Cha, Kamens, Meyer & Wong, 1991;Meyer, Ramírez & Soysal, 1992;Astiz, Wiseman & Baker, 2002, entre otros ejemplos).…”

Modern education in ?non-Western? societies in the light of the world systems approach in Comparative Education

“…This trend seems to be rather independent from economic, cultural and political conditions (including the factor 'colonialism'), with the exception of the respective starting point of the trend. For example, expansion in European countries in this century began from a higher level of schooling than in African countries (Meyer et al 1977 and some further projects at Stanford University). -State control over the modern school systems is -even if in different degrees -also a world-wide fact.…”