Personal profile
About
Professor Sobe is a historian of education and comparative education researcher. He is Professor of Modern European History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago. He works on the history of education and the futures of education and approaches stories about the past and stories about the future as two halves of the same whole—that whole being the accumulating possibilities that we as interdependent human beings in a more-than-human world can imagine and perhaps even recuperate, avoid, or create.
Research Interests
- Globalization and Education
- Transnational Circulations of Educational Policies and Practices
- Accountability in Education
- Attention and Boredom
- Education in the Slavic World, Socialism & Post-Socialism
- History of the Field of Comparative Education
- Emotions in the History of Education
- World's Fairs and International Expositions
- Education and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
- Cosmopolitanism and Education
- Global Higher Education
Disciplines
- Education
- Educational Methods
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A Modest Proposal to Recuperate a Joysome History of Education
Sobe, N. W., 2025, In: History of Education. 54, 1, p. 117-127 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The transnational entanglements of James Liberty Tadd’s drawing curriculum: a curious chapter in the history of human potential
Sobe, N. W., 2025, In: Paedagogica Historica. 61, 1, p. 22-37 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Uncertainty as Ignorance? Governing Futures of Education
Sobe, N. W., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: ECNU Review of Education.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The future and the past are unevenly distributed: COVID’s educational disruptions and UNESCO’s global reports on education
Sobe, N. W., 2022, In: Paedagogica Historica. 58, 5, p. 802-812 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Slowing Global Order: Boredom and Affect in Criss-Crossing Comparative Education Research
Sobe, N. W., Jan 1 2021, Identities and Education: Comparative Perspectives in Times of Crisis. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, p. 163-177 15 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter