History of education

Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A.

In 1959, Virginia's Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate.

To what extent has feminism benefited women?

An authoritative popular history that places the state in regional and national context.

A case for sex education that puts it in historical and philosophical context.

This book explores the nexus between education and politics in Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia, drawing from an extensive body of original evidence and literature on power-sharing and post-conflict education in these post-conflict societies, as well as the repercussions that emerged from the end of civil war.

Much of the work in the field of African studies still relies on rigid distinctions of 'tradition' and 'modernity', 'collaboration' and 'resistance', 'indigenous' and 'foreign'.

This book analyses the development of Catholic schooling in Scotland over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book explores how and why reading was taught in the eighteenth century, exploring different teaching methods in social and economic context.

"e;A stunning and ambitious origins story.

WITS: The Early Years is a history of the University up to 1939.

In writing this book, Elena Stevens' aim is to respond to calls for a more diverse, decolonised curriculum - calls which have become more insistent following the reinvigoration of the Black Lives Matter movement, the #MeToo movement and other landmark events.

This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle.

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This book highlights and interrogates the continued interest and scrutiny of mathematics and science education.

The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning.

En las tres últimas décadas hemos presenciado un interés creciente en las ciencias sociales por la formación personal y moral, especialmente en la infancia y adolescencia, con propuestas diversas para su puesta en práctica.

The last Indian War was fought against Native American children in the dormitories and classrooms of government boarding schools.

Instant interpretive history is a difficult and demanding task, and certainly more of an art than some would suggest.

This book examines the educational role of three international organizations created as part of the post-World War II multilateral architecture: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Bank, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Completed shortly before Hamas carried out its barbaric October massacre,Hate Speech and Academic Freedomtakes up issues that have consequently gained new urgency in the academy worldwide.

This book traces the early history of the Montessori movement in the United States through the lives and careers of four key American women: Anne George, Margaret Naumburg, Helen Parkhurst, and Adelia Pyle.

This book investigates a forgotten chapter of history: the role of Italian sciences within the child study movement.

The way we think about things matters just as much as what we think about things.

In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate schooling from the state.

La historia de vida de Mercedes Valcarce Avello nos acerca al estilo de vida de una familia de la burguesía ilustrada en una capital de provincias en la época de la Guerra Civil y de la postguerra, al mundo universitario de la España de los años sesenta y siguientes, así como al ejercicio de la práctica clínica psicoanalítica y, por tanto, a una primera incorporación de las mujeres universitarias a mundos profesionales acaparados hasta entonces prácticamente por varones.

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi transformed education theory and practice worldwide.

Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations.

In an era of pandemic infection, the importance of hygiene at home and in public spaces has never been greater.

Over the course of the twentieth century, North American public school curricula moved away from the classics and the humanities, and towards ‘progressive’ subjects such as health and social studies.

At the dawn of the last century a shift in direction emerged among education policy-makers in Saskatchewan.

"e;Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife,"e; wrote John Dewey in his classic work The School and Society.

This book is a philosophical enquiry into the educational consequences of Spinoza’s political theory.

In Pursuit of a Lifelong Learning Society explores the policy discourses of lifelong learning articulated by three major international organisations - UNESCO, OECD, and the EU.

Educating the Germans examines the role of the British in the 'reconstruction' of education in occupied Germany from 1945 to 1949.

This book comprises six main chapters and addresses the core research question: How can the endurance of academic bias in Ghana's secondary education system be explained in the context of educational reform versus change of government concurrence?

The history of the dental program at Western University is a spirited and gritty story of grand visions, strong personalities, and contentious leadership.

This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordinary women, Heffernan, the California Commissioner of Rural and Elementary Education between 1926 and 1965, and Seeds, the Director of the University Elementary school at UCLA between 1925 and 1957.

This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider concerns of modern social history.

The first comprehensive history of sex education around the worldToo Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education.

A stupendous compilation of the best things said by and to Americans .

This book opens up philosophical spaces for comparative discussions of education across 'East and West'.

Most education research is undertaken in western developed countries.