History of Education

As issues of history, memory, and identity collide with increasing frequency and intensity in the classroom and society, the timing is ideal to inv...

Ruling by Schooling Quebec provides a rich and detailed account of colonial politics from 1760 to 1841 by following repeated attempts to school the...

In 1971, priest, theologian, and philosopher Ivan Illich wrote Deschooling Society, a plea to liberate education from schooling and to separate sch...

1886 erschien das erste moderne Lehrbuch der jiddischen Sprache. Der Form nach traditionell leitete es einen bahnbrechenden Aufstieg des Jiddischen...

Curriculum Studies in India examines Indian scholars in dialogue regarding their intellectual life histories and subjective investments in their fi...

The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of...

A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europes oldest university, often seen as a bastion of traditionalism, was in fact a vi...

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...