History of Education

Education in the Graeco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. Yet the complex ways in which pedagogical theory and practice intersected with the...

Originally published in 1974, a comprehensive history of Nigerian Education, from early times right through to the time of publication, had long be...

Scholars have historically associated John Wesleys educational endeavours with the boarding school he established at Kingswood, near Bristol, in 17...

Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young peoples diets, and a pu...

This volume presents findings from recent research focusing on young people and the way they relate to religion in their education and upbringing. ...

Examines communication in the classroom within the larger context of the development of standard English and its social implications.

This volume focuses on popular film, television, and online representations of contested corporealities and contributes to visual culture studies, ...

The ability to ask intelligent and searching questions, to use questioning for different purposes and to know what to do with the answers is crucia...

Originally published in 1967, this book was intended to be of value to students of Education in two ways. Firstly, all such students were expected ...

Britain has a rich heritage of school buildings dating from the later Middle Ages to the present day. While some of these schools have attracted th...

Historians in recent years have paid considerable attention to sport and leisure in the past, and historians of education are no exception. The cha...

This volume aims to expand knowledge about the history of comparative education. It explores new scholarship on key actors and ways of knowing in t...

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

Challenging perspectives that often characterize Latinos as at-risk, this book takes an asset approach, highlighting the favorable linguistic, cogn...

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...