History of education

This book introduces six pedagogues from the German context to an English-speaking audience, and demonstrates their significant contribution to the field of alternative education.

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

This book newly interprets the educational implications of Thomas Jefferson's revolutionary thought.

This book offers insights into the history of mathematics education, covering both the current state of the art of research and the methodology of the field.

This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century.

This book explores the history of higher education in Thailand, and the ways in which excellence and equity have played out over time.

During the Progressive Era in the United States, as teaching became professionalized and compulsory attendance laws were passed, the public school emerged as a cultural authority.

This book explores the experiences and activities of students across the twentieth century and throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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.

This book explores how the Montessori movement developed a cultural critique and gained momentum during the interwar years of political turbulence.

This book offers a new perspective on the transnational dimensions of China's educational and economic history by focusing on Sino-German interactions in the field of vocational education.

This book explores tensions between critical social justice and what the author terms white justice as fairness in public commemoration of Minnesota's US-Dakota War of 1862.

This book explores the unique phenomenon of public alternative schools in Toronto, Canada and other large urban areas.

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum.

This book presents a selection of case studies of pioneers in arts education who were working in the United Kingdom in the period 1890 to 1950.

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed by social and economic historians.

This book is a collection of scholarly studies in the history of mathematics education, very abbreviated versions of which were presented at the ICMI Congress in 2021.

This book examines the relatively unknown English late-Victorian educational pioneer, Constance Louisa Maynard (1849-1935), whose innovative London-based Westfield College produced the first female BAs in the mid-1880s.

This book asks what it means to live in a higher educational world continuously tempered by catastrophe.

This collection focuses on generations of early women historians, seeking to identify the intellectual milieu and professional realities that framed their lives.

This volume examines transnational educational transfer between China and the League of Nations during the interwar period.

This book reveals how school memories offer not only a tool for accessing the school of the past, but also a key to understanding what people today know (or think they know) about the school of the past.

The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century.

This book is a comparative study of the endeavors to create a socialist system of higher education in the Soviet Union under Stalin and in China under Mao.

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid.

This edited volume represents a collective contribution to the current debates on developing university research capacity.

From 1966 to 1970, historian Martin Duberman transformed his undergraduate Princeton seminar on American radicalism.

This edited volume analyzes a little-known but important juncture in the history of racial integration and public education during the Obama administration through the advent of the Trump administration, which also marks a significant transition of US racial politics and race relations from its foundations in civil rights movements of the 1950s/60s.

This book explores the evolution of Canadian and Australian national identities in the era of decolonization by evaluating educational policies in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia.

In this book the emergence of schools in urban Sweden between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century provides the framework for a history of children and of childhood.

This book examines the radical reform that occurred during the final two decades of British rule in Ireland when William Starkie (1860-1920) presided as Resident Commissioner for the Board.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the passage of Title IX, the key legislation to bring about gender equity in education.

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 volume discusses Alfred Binet's works on pedagogy based on his "e;Orthopedie Mentale"e;.

This book examines Norwegian education throughout the course of the 19th century, and discusses its development in light of broader transnational impulses.

This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book.

This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women's colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large.

This Handbook traces and presents the fundamentals of Islam and their history and background, and provides a global and holistic, yet, detailed picture of Islamic education around the world.

This book examines the European discussion about alternative schooling in the 20th century.

This book examines the life of Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College from 1911 to 1947, who dedicated her life to expanding women's collegiate opportunities to match those of men, and to allow women entry into professional and graduate programs.

This book explores the localisation of modernity in late colonial India.

This book provides an unconventional account of post-1989 education reform in Romania.

This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe, namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of how education has developed over the last 70 years within the United Kingdom.

This book analyses royal education in nineteenth-century, constitutional Spain.

This book is a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic who has occupied many diverse roles in the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty.

This book examines the history of Jewish education from the Biblical period to the present.

This book examines how World War II affected denominational colleges who faced a national crisis in relationship to their Christian tenets and particular religious communities and student bodies.

This book examines the development of civic education in the United States through the lives of two teachers at Shortridge High School (SHS) in Indianapolis around 1900.