History of Education

Celebrating fifty volumes of the multilingual journal Paedagogica Historica, this book contains contributions written by different generations of historians of education, and demonstrates that in an era where the history of education at university level is at risk, both the journal and the disciplin..

Celebrating fifty volumes of the journal Paedagogica Historica, this book discusses the journal’s beginnings, explores the development of the history of education as a discipline, and turns to the future to address new trends which will have a significant impact on the field. It was first published ..

The role of teachers in association football, a much neglected aspect of English cultural history, is a story that allows a fundamental reappraisal of the status and position of these teachers in the society of the last 150 years._x000D_ This book was previously published as a special issue of Socce..

This work provides an overall review and analysis of the history of education and of its key research priorities in the British context. It investigates the extent to which education has contributed historically to social change in Britain, how it has itself been moulded by society, and the needs an..

This work provides an overall review and analysis of the history of education and of its key research priorities in the British context. It investigates the extent to which education has contributed historically to social change in Britain, how it has itself been moulded by society, and the needs an..

Originally published 1968, this book examines the ways in which the definitions of education  have changed since 1800...

This book examines key theorists in depth in order to give some insight into cultural change as reflected in their curricular recommendations and in the interplay they reveal between the two fundamental educational concepts of ‘artifice’ and ‘nature’. The essays on the various theorists – Erasmus, V..

This book examines key theorists in depth in order to give some insight into cultural change as reflected in their curricular recommendations and in the interplay they reveal between the two fundamental educational concepts of ‘artifice’ and ‘nature’. The essays on the various theorists – Erasmus, V..

This volume completes G H Bantock’s comprehensive study of educational thought, and its relationship to the broad development of European culture, from the time of the Renaissance to the present day. During the period under consideration, the new freedom from dogma and hierarchy allowed for the emer..

This volume completes G H Bantock’s comprehensive study of educational thought, and its relationship to the broad development of European culture, from the time of the Renaissance to the present day. During the period under consideration, the new freedom from dogma and hierarchy allowed for the emer..

Grounded in a critical sociocultural approach, this volume examines issues associated with teaching and learning difficult histories in international contexts. Although official national historical narratives often exclude or marginalize victimized communities, teaching and learning difficult histor..

Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages provides a comprehensive history of language teaching and learning in the UK from its earliest beginnings to the year 2000. McLelland offers the first history of the social context of foreign language education in Britain, as well as an overview of changing ap..