History of Education

This book brings together the work of eleven leading international scholars to map the contribution of teaching Sisters, who provided schooling to hundreds of thousands of children, globally, from 1800–1950. The volume represents research that draws on several theoretical approaches and methodologie..

This book brings together the work of eleven leading international scholars to map the contribution of teaching Sisters, who provided schooling to hundreds of thousands of children, globally, from 1800–1950. The volume represents research that draws on several theoretical approaches and methodologie..

_x005F_x000D_ Singapore under the ruling People’s Action Party government has been categorized as a developmental state, which has utilized education as an instrument of its economic policies and nation building agenda. Having said that, the colonial state had been using education to meet the demand..

This book offers readers a valuable insight into continuing and contemporary debates in the field of educational administration and history and the authors offer a refreshing interpretation of these debates. This book highlights the extent to which these debates remain a contemporary concern...

Originally published 1967, this title reveals how the missionaries, so often misguided and short-sighted, were in fact pioneers of modernization, science and freedom...

This volume critically analyses continuing educational initiatives in Japan, from 1900 to the present day, with a particular focus on learner-centred and creative approaches. Chapters consider key collaborative improvements to teacher education, as well as group learning, ‘life education’, the creat..

As well as examining the history and contemporary state of primary and secondary education in England and Wales at the turn of the 19th Century, this volume provides comparative analyses of the education of Germany, Denmark and the British Empire (particularly India). Commercial, industrial and agri..

As well as examining the history and contemporary state of primary and secondary education in England and Wales at the turn of the 19th Century, this volume provides comparative analyses of the education of Germany, Denmark and the British Empire (particularly India). Commercial, industrial and agri..

 Educational Reform and Environmental Concern explores the theories that supported nature study, as well as its definitions, aims, how it was introduced to curricula and its practice in the classroom, by focusing upon educational reform in the Australian state of New South Wales...

Originally published in 1926, this volume charts the achievements of Edward Thring, arguably the most original and striking figure in the schoolmaster world of England in the nineteenth century...

This study, first published in 1979, analyses the attitude of various income and occupational groups to elementary schools both before and after the introduction of compulsory school attendance. It also discusses the efforts made by voluntary organisations to provide school meals, as well as examini..

This study, first published in 1979, analyses the attitude of various income and occupational groups to elementary schools both before and after the introduction of compulsory school attendance. It also discusses the efforts made by voluntary organisations to provide school meals, as well as examini..