History of Education

A Road Less Traveled: Critical Literacy and Language Learning in the Classroom, 1964–1996 takes us through what Robert W. Blake calls the "jaunty j...

How particular has Southeast Asia’s experience of educational development been, and has this led to an identifiably distinct Southeast Asian approa...

Konrad H. Jarausch studies the social structure of the German university and the mentality of its students during the Imperial period as an example...

This volume, the third in a series of biographical sketches of students at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), is an account of t...

Benjamin Rush, William Paterson, David Ramsay, Oliver Ellsworth, Jonathan Edwards, Jr.--these are only a few of the remarkable men who attended the...

In contrast to the prevailing view, this book reveals the educational revolution" of the 1500s to have grown from an earlier expansion of elementar...

This study explains the rise and evaluates the strength of the National Socialist Students' Association (NSDStB) during the whole period of its exi...

These volumes, the fourth and fifth, complete the series of biographical sketches of students at Princeton University (the College of New Jersey in...

Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on ethics education in different professions, such as medicine and teaching. However, the implications of...

The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discours...

Nationalism, War and Jewish Education explores historical circumstances leading to the emergence of a Jewish religious school system lasting to mod...

The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education is a much-needed exploration of the unprecedented current controversies and debates over teacher edu...

Understanding the University constitutes the final volume in a trilogy – the first two books having been Being a University (2010) and Imagining th...

The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of...

Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricu...

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Administration is a first-of-its-kind transnational survey of the field of educational administration and le...