History of Education

Originally published in 1971. This second volume in this three-part set examines specific aspects of social relationships within the school and dem...

During this difficult time in our nation’s history, with the focus on “racial reckoning”, it is crucial that Americans understand when and how our ...

What is the explanation for American students’ comparatively mediocre academic performance? A Mirror for Americans finds part of it in how they are...

Developed out of a 2015 conference of the History of Education Society, UK, this book explores the interconnections between the histories of scienc...

News media, film, and the music industry have become powerful sources of misrepresentation of Black male life in the social imagination of white so...

Originally published in 1995. This study of the integration of East and West German education following the collapse of the German Democratic Repub...

Teaching about Genocide presents the insights, advice, and suggestions of secondary-level teachers (social studies, history, English, language arts...

Then, Now and Why Now, identifies many educational issues evident during the past six decades and which present some controversies for educators. E...

The book sets forth the early developments established by colonial leaders to place public education in the forefront of their new America. The ups...

The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert ove...

This book tells the little-known story of how some of the most renowned social scientists of the twentieth century struggled to elevate their emer...

Using visual ethnography, this book explores the many forms of pleasures that boys derive in and through the spaces and their bodies in physical ed...

This book, first published in 1965, gives a thumb-nail sketch of the Working Men’s College during two periods of total war. It describes from conte...

Teaching about Genocide presents the insights, advice, and suggestions of secondary-level teachers (social studies, history, English, language arts...

Then, Now and Why Now, identifies many educational issues evident during the past six decades and which present some controversies for educators. E...

Originally published in 1991. This book concerns the reception and spread of American-style progressivism in post-Fascist Italy. It places educatio...

Nineteenth-century Sierra Leone presented a unique situation historically as the focal point of early abolitionist efforts, settlement within West ...

Under the influence of mounting foreign competition in the late-Victorian and Edwardian periods, many Britons sought to bolster England’s world pos...

With Northern Ireland as her focal point, Margaret E. Smith examines how group narratives are used in the field of history education to address bot...

The global trend in educational participation has brought with it a cross-national consequence: the expansion of students with "special needs" (SEN...

The World Today Series: East & Southeast Asia provides historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help reade...

Originally published in 1969. British merchants first penetrated to Moscow in the early 16th century. From that time until today developments in Ru...

Mary Mills Patrick’s Constantinople Woman’s College was one of the most influential institutions of higher learning for women in the Middle East in...

Originally published in 1984. This annotated bibliography is a comprehensive record of English-language materials which focus on Education in the F...

School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit thei...

The Arc of Educational Change places American educational history into a realistic, modern historical context that recognizes both the importance o...

The World Today Series: USA and The World describes not only what happened, but puts events in the context of the past and criticizes policy actio...

Most published bodies of work relating to curriculum theory focus exclusively, or almost exclusively, on the contributions of men. This is not repr...

Using case studies and an auto-ethnographic study of rural education history in New York State, Casey Thomas Jakubowski provides an introduction to...

The Arc of Educational Change places American educational history into a realistic, modern historical context that recognizes both the importance o...

American educators and policy makers have grown increasingly frustrated in recent decades as attempts to enhance equity and bring American student ...

Through firsthand accounts of classroom practices, this new book ties 130 years of progressive education to social justice work. Based on their com...

This book is the first publication to devote serious attention to the history of home education from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth cen...