History of education

Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War.

A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher educationAmerican higher education is nearly four centuries old.

Reformpädagogik gilt bis heute als "magische Größe".

From its formative years to the present, advocates of various persuasions have written and spoken about the country's need for moral and civic education.

This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school.

Winner of a 2005 Critics Choice Award fromThe American Educational Studies Association, this is a groundbreaking collection of oral histories, letters, interviews, and governmental reports related to the history of Latino education in the US.

Urban Education in the United States examines the development of schools in the large cities of the USA.

When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools,The Baltimore Sun called her "e;the most powerful of principals"e; who "e;tangled with two superintendents and beat them both.

This book will look at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology.

Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation.

This book explores literature in its role as a sacred text within the confines of 19th-century French primary and secondary education, helping the school to take over the role of spiritual authority from the Catholic Church.

In 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee decided to establish Freedom Schools as part of its Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi.

The American State Normal School is the first comprehensive history of the state normal schools in the United States.

World history has expanded dramatically in recent years, primarily as a teaching field, and increasingly as a research field.

What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the twenty-first century?

On Whit Monday 1828 a strange youth, barely able to speak and hardly able to walk appeared in Nuremberg.

There is a fundamental gap in education.

A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coedAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time.

An essential history of the modern research universityWhen universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "e;wisdom's special workshop.

A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but "e;philology"e; was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more.

This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire.

American higher education was transformed between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I.

There are few subjects these days that cause parents more stress than the education of their children.

There are few subjects these days that cause parents more stress than the education of their children.

How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West.

For the white race it is almost impossible to comprehend what it took to lift blacks from the state of brutal slavery to their rightful place in society.

In his first book, published in 2012, Ibram X.

Raymond Williams' major contributions to intellectual progress are usually categorised within cultural theory, media studies or neo-Marxist studies.

Raymond Williams' major contributions to intellectual progress are usually categorised within cultural theory, media studies or neo-Marxist studies.

This book is the essential guide to understanding the historical influences that have shaped our ideas about infancy and infant care today.

This book is the essential guide to understanding the historical influences that have shaped our ideas about infancy and infant care today.

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970.

In a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970.

Education is central to the project of individual and collective identity formation, national development and international relations, and is crucial in moments of crisis.

Urban provides an intellectual history of Harvard presidency of James Bryant Conant (1933-1953), situating it within the broader international landscape and drawing out the implication for the current state of higher education with reference to specific leadership policy issues in the sector.

Urban provides an intellectual history of Harvard presidency of James Bryant Conant (1933-1953), situating it within the broader international landscape and drawing out the implication for the current state of higher education with reference to specific leadership policy issues in the sector.

A History of Education in Modern Russia is the first book to trace the significance of education in Russia from Peter the Great's reign all the way through to Vladimir Putin and the present day.

A History of Education in Modern Russia is the first book to trace the significance of education in Russia from Peter the Great's reign all the way through to Vladimir Putin and the present day.

In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias.

In these essays, Donald Wiebe unveils a significant problem in the academic study of religion in colleges and universities in North America and Europe - that studies almost always exhibit a religious bias.

Tackling the intellectual histories of the first twenty women to earn a PhD in philosophy in the United States, this book traces their career development and influence on American intellectual life.

Tackling the intellectual histories of the first twenty women to earn a PhD in philosophy in the United States, this book traces their career development and influence on American intellectual life.

Illuminating a significant moment in the development of both American and feminist philosophical history, this book explores the pioneering thought of the women in the early American Idealist movement and outgrowths of it in the late-nineteenth century.