History of education

Der Philologe Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) und der Archäologe, Journalist und Pädagoge Karl August Böttiger (1760–1835) schrieben einander von 1788 bis 1812 etwa 300 Briefe.

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

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

This book contributes extensively to a better understanding of how vocational education and training (VET) and practice-based learning and teaching is developed and designed.

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 focuses on discourses of the politics of history education and history textbooks.

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

Isocrates is one of the most remarkable and influential figures in the history of human thought.

This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I.

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.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of pupils attended boarding schools in various places across the globe.

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.

In this follow up to Laukaitis' Denominational Higher Education During World War II (Palgrave 2018), this collection investigates connections between religion, student activism, and higher education to reveal the complexity of public reactions to the controversies around the Vietnam War.

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 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 educational policy at primary, secondary and university level in Ireland from the foundation of the State to the present day.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

In the years immediately following the Civil War the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them.

This book explores how the expectations of historical justice movements and processes are understood within educational contexts, particularly history education.

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.

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

This book calls for a reconceptualisation and decolonisation of the Key Stage 2 national history curriculum.

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 explores citizenship education and democracy in the Netherlands.

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 draws on recent deconstructions around the idea of 'femininity' as a social, racial and class construct and explores the diversity of spaces that may be defined as educational that range from institutional contexts to family, to professional outlooks, to racial identity, to defining community and religious groupings.

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

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

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

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

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

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

This book explores the Paris Ecole Militaire as an institution, arguing for its importance as a school that presented itself as a model for reform during a key moment in the movement towards military professionalism as well as state-run secular education.

This edited collection addresses the nexus of gender, power relations, and education from various angles while covering a broad spectrum of the history of education in both time and geographic space.