History of Education

A conservative college professor's compelling defense of liberal educationNot so long ago, conservative intellectuals such as William F. Buckley Jr...

Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to educatio...

Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fi...

A perfectly timed book for the educational resistancethose of us who believe in public schools Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist gr...

This book presents a moderately revisionist history of the great books idea anchored in the following movements and struggles: fighting anti-intell...

Analyzing the circumstances surrounding the creation and development of the Atlanta University System, this book shows how philanthropists' positiv...

Conflicting conservative and radical impulses in English society after WWII were played out in microcosm in education. They particularly shaped Eng...

Animals, Disability, and the End of Capitalism is a collection of essays from the leaders in the field of eco-ability. The book is rooted in critic...

Examining the attitudes toward the education of the lower classes in eighteenth- century France, Harvey Chisick uncovers severe limitations to enli...

This beautifully designed book reviews Irish primary education at a time of momentous change. Following a rich contextual introduction, the authors...

From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of...

Leading historians provide new insights into the founding generation's views on the place of public education in America. This volume explores endu...

The only guide on the history of American education you will need to read, The History and Social Foundations of Education, Tenth Edition, serves a...

One of the key ways in which the traditional Jewish world of eastern Europe responded to the challenges of modernity in the nineteenth century was ...

Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they a...

Over the course of the twentieth century, education was a key site for envisioning opportunities for African Americans, but the very schools they a...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The founder of higher education research in Germany, Ulrich Teichler, looks back on more than five decades of higher education research. The econom...

More than 70 languages are spoken in contemporary Iran, yet all governmental correspondence and educational textbooks must be written in Farsi. To ...

In the decades after 1944 the four nations of Britain shared a common educational programme. By 2015, this programme had fragmented: the patterns o...

Espinoza's work illuminates how education was the site of ideological and political struggle in Peru during its early years as an independent state...

This is the first book devoted to the study of the thought of Albert Schweitzer as it relates to educational theory and practice. Rud argues that S...

This collection of historical essays on race develops lines of inquiry into race and social studies, such as geography, history, and vocational edu...

This volume marks the 2022 centenary of the first National Programme for Education in the Free State. Central to the outlook of the new educational...

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi transformed education theory and practice worldwide. Daniel Tröhler connects Pestalozzi's work to its context in Europe'...

Espinoza's work illuminates how education was the site of ideological and political struggle in Peru during its early years as an independent state...

An exploration of a surprisingly combative period in the history of English grammar.   Heated arguments can break out over many things: slander, in...

This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the pervasive role of politics and its influence on integrity of policy impl...

This book traces a history of bilingual education in the US, unveiling the pervasive role of politics and its influence on integrity of policy impl...

A collection of 50 think pieces showcasing perspectives on curriculum theory and practice, presented by the British Educational Research Associatio...