History of Education

Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in t...

Science fairs, clubs, and talent searches are familiar fixtures in American education, yet little is known about why they began and grew in popular...

Engages a topic of pressing concern for government, business, and education leaders around the world: the race to establish 'world-class' universit...

Boston s schools in 2006 won the Eli Broad Prize for the Most Improved Urban School System in America. But from the 1930s into the 1970s the city s...

An exploration of how educational institutions have been portrayed in horror film, this book examines the way that scary movies have dealt with the...

Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practi...

Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of ...

Using auto-ethnography, Taieb narrates the journey of developing a educational philosophy from and for the Kayble of Algeria and undertakes to writ...

This book examines the struggle over public education in mid-twentieth century America through the lens of a joint biography of these two extraordi...

Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially se...

Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially se...

Featuring in-depth examinations of concepts of knowing, learning, and education from a range of cultures worldwide, this book offers a rich theory ...

Chou and Ching examine the processes of schooling in Taiwan amidst social, cultural, economic, and political conflict resulting from local and glob...

Owens provides a historical analysis of the ideological movements and reform efforts leading to the Common Core State Standards, beginning with con...

This groundbreaking volume considers whether the question of the high school's seeming demise is exaggerated and why it is experiencing the many pr...

Early Childhood in Postcolonial Australia is a critical narration of how Australian children use cultural markers such as, skin color, diet and rel...

Holocaust education is a rapidly evolving and controversial field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, adopts a global p...

New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. It shows that, in many respects,...

At last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history mythsadapted by the famed National B...

During Hawaiis territorial period (19001959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history w...

Read the news about Americas colleges and universitiesrising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administra...

A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoes firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denvers publ...

An emphasis on education has long been a salient feature of the Jewish experience. The pervasive presence of schools and teachers, books and librar...

An emphasis on education has long been a salient feature of the Jewish experience. The pervasive presence of schools and teachers, books and librar...