History of Education

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant ...

A Guide to the Soviet Curriculum (1988) surveys the syllabuses for schoolchildren in the Soviet education system following the reforms of 1984. Eve...

How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the states desire to control its citizensNearly ever...

This penetrating historical study traces the rise and fall of the theory of recapitulation and its enduring influence on American education. Inhere...

This book aims to fill the gap in our knowledge about crisis management in schools, its particular characteristics, and strategies from a historica...

Starting in the 1850s achievement tests became standardized in the British Isles, and were administered on an industrial scale. By the end of the c...

This is a ground-breaking history of school and college inspection in Wales. With contributions from two former chief inspectors, two former HMI an...

In Third Republic France (1870-1940), the directrice of a normal school (école normale) for training women teachers was the most important woman re...

These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together...

What social change has been achieved over the past 30 years?What have been the main barriers to progress?What great achievements can we identify an...