First published in 1987, this title reflects the growing doubts of the period as to the ability of formal education provision alone to effect major changes in the distribution of socio-economic privilege at the group level, whether as between the sexes, classes, or ethnic groups.
Celebrating fifty volumes of the multilingual journal Paedagogica Historica, this book contains contributions written by different generations of hist..
Although considered a figure of great importance and influence by his contemporaries, Edmond Holmes has been consigned to relative obscurity in the pr..
This book challenges the existing notion that transnationalism is fundamentally concerned with an action; the spatial movement of people. Instead, it ..
This book brings together the work of eleven leading international scholars to map the contribution of teaching Sisters, who provided schooling to hun..
This book questions the view that mechanics’ institutes made little contribution to adult working-class education from their foundation in the 1820s t..
This book re-examines aspects of historical socialism, and includes case studies of education within twenty-first century socialist and post-socialist..
An examination of the gender-blindness of the educational tradition. It tests the claim of superiority for the Scottish system, and questions the assu..
Covering both formal and informal education this volume examines Renaissance education in England and Italy, set within the relevant social, historica..
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Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the relationship between education and society in the different countries of Europe from wh..