History of education

Why should we encourage kids to study history?

Read about the Industrial Revolution and how that societal shift has affected millions of lives.

Agriculture is a topic not normally discussed in kindergarten or preschool.

What's Ahead in Education?

All hail to the man who discovered America and placed it in the map.

The 20th century pertains to the years from 1900 to 1999.

History is never boring when you have Europe as the topic and this book as the reference.

Did you know that England is a country where women rule - literally?

Sure, a majority of Europe's most historic events centered on castles.

The early Islamic conquests began when in the 7th century and the rise of Prophet Muhammad.

It's very understandable if your child does not find European history interesting at first.

How did the United States of America become a powerful nation?

Unleash both the historian and architect in your kids with this Ancient Roman Roads and Architecture History Book.

Why is it important to go back to the past?

It's that time of exploration and keeping new discoveries at bay.

Many revolutions originated from the intense desire to spread religion.

How many American Presidents can you name?

If your child can learn about the world before the smartphones, it would lead to a better understanding of how technology has helped reshape the world.

You celebrate Thanksgiving every year, but do you know why?

The Middle Ages were a very interesting time because of so many changes that came after the collapses of the Roman Empire.

This is a book is of educational ideas, commentaries, and observations from the past.

Learn about the land of kimchi - Korea!

Can you recall life during the American Revolution?

These great men deserve your admiration for the wonderful things they did to mold the present.

Zimbabwe is known for its rich culture and traditions.

Who says history will always be boring?

In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus.

Fifty years ago, in 1967, free education was introduced in Ireland for attendance at second-level schools and great expansion of provision of education at both this and third-level followed.

This book examines the history of formative assessment in the US and explores its potential for changing the landscape of teaching and learning to meet the needs of twenty-first century learners.

This book provides an analysis of university missions over time and space.

This book describes how the number of international students has grown in 150 years, from 60,000 to nearly 4 million.

This book analyzes the murals and texts of the Dunhuang Grottoes, one of the most famous sites of cultural heritage on the Silk Road in Northwest China, from an educational perspective.

This book unravels the origins, continuities, and discontinuities of Finnish higher education as part of European higher education from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.

This book provides a history of the Quaker educator and intercultural education pioneer Rachel Davis DuBois (1892-1993) that explores the period in which DuBois lived and the key works she created.

This book explores the impact of the Lesson Books of the National Board of Education in Ireland in the nineteenth century.

This book explores how school history textbooks are used to perpetuate nationalistic policies within divided regions.

This volume explores the history of dance on the historically black college and university (HBCU) campus, casting a first light on the historical practices and current state of college dance program practice in HBCUs.

This book proposes 'paragogic' methods to re-imagine the art academy.

This book historically reconstructs the conservative and moderate liberals' views on governance, morality, and education within the context of La Regeneracion (1878-1903) in Colombian Panama.

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education.

This book examines the origins of higher learning, and then traces education exchange to the aftermath of World War II, when the United States was internationally recognized as the epicenter of critical thinking and scientific discovery.

L’enseignement de l’histoire – comme la discipline historique – a connu d’importants changements au Québec depuis la Révolution tranquille.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Sami education in a historical and internationally comparative perspective.

This book examines school acts in the long nineteenth century, traditionally considered as milestones or landmarks in the process of achieving universal education.

This book considers the diffusion and transfer of educational ideas through local and transcontinental networks within and across five socio-political spaces.

For anyone interested in the history and effects of the introduction of so-called "e;Modern Mathematics"e; (or "e;Mathematique Moderne,"e; or "e;New Mathematics,"e; etc.

In this book, John C.

This contributed volume investigates the active role of the different contexts of mathematics teaching on the evolution of the practices of mathematical concepts, with particular focus on their foundations.

This book critically considers how tertiary institutions of higher education in the United States are charged with the duty of preserving democracy, teaching citizenship literacy, and contributing to economic stability.

This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system, from a time of donnish dominion, progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of tuition fees.