History of Education

Frances Mary Buss, who began her teaching career at fourteen, was only twenty-three when she founded the North London Collegiate School, the forerunner and model of Girls’ High Schools throughout the country. Her friend Dorothea Beale was for nearly fifty years Principal of Cheltenham Ladies College..

Originally published in 1971, this volume examines the growth of educational opportunities for girls and is set against a background of changing social attitudes and ideas...

Originally published in 1966. This volume reappraises the educational philosophy of Comenius...

Originally published in 1961, the book charts the dynamics of successive phases of the adult education movement...

Originally published in 1972, this book is concerned with education as part of a larger social history...

Originally published in 1988, this book analyses the effect of public boarding school - it places the particular concerns of a relatively small group within the much wider contexts of education, social and gender structure...

This book discusses the way in which those born into the British empire were persuaded to accept it, often with enthusiasm. The study compares the perceptions of people at ‘home’, in the dominions and in the colonies. Across the diversity of imperial territories it explores themes such as the divers..

This book discusses the way in which those born into the British empire were persuaded to accept it, often with enthusiasm. The study compares the perceptions of people at ‘home’, in the dominions and in the colonies. Across the diversity of imperial territories it explores themes such as the divers..

Originally published in 1967, this volume provides an account of the early development of English education...

There is a growing interest and debate amongst historians of education surrounding issues of visuality, materiality, spatiality, transfer, and circulation. This book focuses on the interaction between ideas, images, objects, and/or spaces that contain an educational dimension, addressing how meaning..

Originally published in 1958. The history of Morley College provides an illuminating case-history of the growth and spread of adult education in the second half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries...

This book, first published in 1967, begins with a description of Pestalozzi’s life in which the factors which influenced his development are outlined and the history of his educational institutes described. The author then presents Pestalozzi’s most important educational ideas in a systematic way. D..