Eckhard Klieme

Wendelin Sroka

Hans Döbert

Hans Döbert, Eckhard Klieme, Wendelin Sroka

A Quest for Understanding the International Variation of PISA Results

Conditions of School Performance in Seven Countries

Tuija Laine

Britta Juska-Bacher

Matthew Grenby

Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe. Remarkably, similar texts appeared across the continent, spanning confessional traditions that were in other respects highly divergent. In different places, and across the whole period, different denominations used not only similar pedagogical and religious strategies, but also shared the same formats and iconography. This volume, edited by scholars from Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, is the result of a collaborative transnational and interdisciplinary effort including education, language teaching, children’s literature, book history, and religious studies. With contributions on seventeen European countries and regions, it sheds new light on a fascinating but largely neglected part of European cultural heritage, and, by establishing a comprehensive and authoritative summary of the field, offers fresh impetus for further transnational research.

Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries

Learning to Read, Learning Religion

Wendelin Sroka

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