Studies in the History of Education
Reflections of the Japanese Education System in Britain: A Modern Utopia? 1858–1914
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By Mari Hiraoka
October 28, 2024
This book explores British reflections of Japanese education between 1858 and 1914, by referring to accounts by British observers, derived from documentary sources such as newspapers, journal articles, published books, and official reports. Hiraoka argues that British attitudes and comments on ...
Essays in Twentieth-Century Southern Education: Exceptionalism and Its Limits
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By Wayne Urban
September 23, 2016
A comprehensive treatment of the defining issues (race, class, reform) regarding education in this century of the American South. The approaches range from broad based historical comparisons to analyses of select case studies....
Japanese Americans and Cultural Continuity: Maintaining Language through Heritage
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By Toyotomi Morimoto
September 02, 2016
Although the United States is a nation of immigrants, few Americans are familiar with the ethnic community mother-tongue schools that nurtured and maintained the immigrants' language and culture. This book records the history of the schools of Americans of Japanese ancestry, focusing on the ...
Girl's Schooling During The Progressive Era: From Female Scholar to Domesticated Citizen
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By Karen Graves
August 12, 2016
This work traces the impact of a differentiated curriculum on girls' education in St. Louis public schools from 1870 to 1930. Its central argument is that the premise upon which a differentiated curriculum is founded, that schooling ought to differ among students in order prepare each for his or ...
Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States, 1727-1925
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By Nancy Beadie, Kim Tolley
July 21, 2016
Academies were a prevalent form of higher schooling during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States. The authors in this volume look at the academy as the dominant institution of higher schooling in the United States, highlighting the academy's role in the formation of middle ...
Common, Delinquent, and Special: The Institutional Shape of Special Education
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By Dr J Richardson
July 21, 2016
This book explores the historical origins and institutional shape of special education across the American states. It begins with the decade of the 1840s as states anticipated the legislation of compulsory attendance laws. With these laws, the institutional beginnings of special education emerge ...
Discipline, Moral Regulation, and Schooling: A Social History
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By Kate Rousmaniere, Kari Dehli, Ning De Coninck-Smith
January 20, 2016
This collection of essays on the social history of disciplinary practices in education in North America, Northern Europe, and Colonial Bengal coverage upon an understanding that schools regulate the behavior of beliefs of students, teachers, and parents by enforcing certain disciplinary social ...
Women's Education in Early Modern Europe: A History, 1500Tto 1800
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By Barbara Whitehead, Barbara Whitehead
November 24, 2015
This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it....
Radical Heroes: Gramsci, Freire and the Poitics of Adult Education
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By Diana Coben
August 25, 2015
First Published in 1998. This book examines the ideas of two of the most controversial radical heroes of adult education, Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire, gauging their significance for the development of a radical politics of adult education in the post-Soviet, post-apartheid new world order. ...
Great Books, Honors Programs, and Hidden Origins: The Virginia Plan and the University of Virginia in the Liberal Arts Movement
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By William Haarlow
September 02, 2003
This book argues a new and more complex interpretation of the development and manifestations of the liberal arts movement in American higher education during the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Specifically, the book elucidates the under-explored yet formative role that the University of Virginia and its 1935 ...
Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich
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By Gregory Wegner
October 04, 2002
This book investigates the anti-Semitic foundations of Nazi curricula for elementary schools, with a focus on the subjects of biology, history, and literature. Gregory Paul Wegner argues that any study of Nazi society and its values must probe the education provided by the regime. Schools, ...
Children of the Mill: Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960
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By Ronald D. Cohen
August 02, 2002
Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906, and was part of the US Steel Corporation's plan to build the world's largest steel mill. The city's school system became world-famous as a progressive educational experiment until the 1930s when a changing political and economic climate led to an erosion of the ...