(2021). Restaging the past: historical pageants, culture and society in modern Britain, edited by Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman and Alexander Hutton. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2021). The emergence of teacher education in Zambia, by Brandon P. Carmody. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This essay proposes a feminist research agenda on the history of women teachers’ experiences in the latter stages of their career and life. Drawing on extant histories of white women elementary and secondary teachers in the largely Anglo, western world (centred on the United States, Canada, England, Australia and Ireland), the essay explores the concept of age as a category of analysis, particularly

ABSTRACT This study examines the implications of the ‘equalisation policy’ and the expansion of secondary education in South Korea in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The equalisation policy is one of the most radical school reform attempts in South Korea. A random assignment or lottery system for students was introduced for all middle schools in 1968 and all high schools in 1974, abolishing selective

ABSTRACT This article explores the position of rural women in Irish society during the period 1930–1960, focusing on their engagement with vocational education. Irish vocational education was organised and delivered in a way that was in keeping with a wider gendered ideology as represented in the policy discourse with gender-segregated training, the promotion of traditional domestic roles and a lack

ABSTRACT This study provides new evidence on the advance of literacy in Spain during the period 1860–1930. A novel dataset, built with historical information from the Spanish population censuses (over 8000 municipalities), enables this process to be described in detail from the end of the Ancien Régime to the Second Republic. The study thus presents stylised facts at a very low level of geographic

ABSTRACT This article addresses the life and educational thinking of Victor Lytton, second Earl of Lytton, who not only involved himself in a wide number of social causes but was instrumental in contributing to the development of progressive education in the early decades of the twentieth century. This he did through his work with the New Ideals in Education conferences but also as he became embroiled

ABSTRACT This article discusses the conceptualisation of enuresis nocturna by Dutch experts between c.1950 and 1990, years in which across the West new child sciences rapidly developed. Today, bedwetting is conceived as a mental illness caused by a mixture of nature- and nurture-bound factors. Have organic and environmental causes always figured as twins, even in the post-war decades of predominant

ABSTRACT Early advocates for the expansion of women’s higher education imagined a future that was deeply embedded in their aspirations for social, economic and political equality. In the vanguard of campaigns for wider access to higher education were women professors, they themselves outsiders within an academic hierarchy marked by male privilege. This article shines the spotlight on two women professors

ABSTRACT This article examines the lived experiences of teachers who were either lay volunteers or Sister missionaries, working in education and health care. The research draws on oral histories, examining the responses of participants under a series of thematic headings that unpack the influence of family life, schooling and faith, while also exploring experience ‘in the field’. The article attempts

(2021). Aristocratic education and the making of the American republic, by Mark Boonshoft. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article analyses two secondary school competitions – the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) and the International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) – as platforms for early elite fostering in science between the years 1967 and 1984. It argues that the two arrangements can be understood as one of many Cold War arenas of the time period. The article further discusses how participation in the

ABSTRACT This article reveals that, contrary to common knowledge, schooling for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in British Columbia – Canada’s westernmost province – was not strictly segregated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Officially, government policy stipulated that Indigenous children should attend separate day and residential schools funded by the federal government

(2021). Reimagining teaching in early twentieth century experimental schools, by Alessandra Arce Hai, Helen May, Kristen Nawrotzki, Larry Prochner and Yordanka Valkanova. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2021). A progressive education? How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools, by Laura Tisdall. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between education policy and the trajectory of English fever in Korea. English fever refers to a fervent desire to become proficient in English at almost any cost. English fever started with governments’ globalisation efforts in the 1980s and further intensified in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Drawing on policy enactment theory and

ABSTRACT The Intermediate System of schooling, which operated in Ireland between 1878 and 1922, has, generally, been considered limited in ambition and as having generated a culture of high-stake terminal examinations. This article seeks a more nuanced understanding of the system and proposes that, despite an evolving system of secondary provision in Ireland prior to 1878, the Intermediate System provided

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the factors central to the practices and realities of historical educational support for destitute and neglected children in the Manchester Certified Industrial Schools (MCIS) to determine how the schools acted to support the lives of children who were removed from parental guardianship. In nineteenth-century England, the most vulnerable children, destitute and often neglected

(2021). Beyond Macaulay: education in India, 1780–1860, by Parimala V. Rao. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Fröbel’s pedagogy of kindergarten and play: modifications in Germany and the United States, by Helge Wasmuth. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article aims to portray industrial workers’ vocational training during Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship in Spain (1923–1930), based on the Industrial Training Act of 1924 and the Vocational Training Act of 1928. The programme was devised to meet the modernising expectations of a conventional society. The grounds for government interventionism were laid down in a new curriculum based on

ABSTRACT This paper uses a newly discovered data set on examination results by gender from 1913 to 1986 to show that the gender gap in examinations at the University of Oxford has existed for over a century. We show that after declining for almost 70 years the gender gap in Firsts increased significantly after the introduction of coresidence – the admission of women to formerly men’s colleges in 1974

(2021). The crisis of the meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War, by Peter Mandler. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article charts some of the historical paths that have helped bring forth, in late-modern societies, what I call scientised educational discourses and practices. Though the project of forming the ‘scientific man’ can be traced back to the nineteenth century, it is argued that the nature of the project changed once it became aligned with the Cold War sciences, especially cybernetics, computer

ABSTRACT Comenius (1592–1670) has been widely studied in educational research, although limited work has addressed his thinking about science education comprehensively. His Pansophist philosophy led him to believe that science was a necessary subject for all (Omnes). Comenius emphasised useful scientific knowledge and core principles (Omnia). He espoused the idea of sequence, from the importance of

ABSTRACT After the First World War, the second generation of headmistresses were working in a Britain in which the secondary education of girls was generally accepted. In 1920, Phyllis Monk, a former Blackheath student and Roedean teacher, was appointed to take charge of Chorleywood College, a new secondary school for girls with a vision impairment. She became a pioneer in special education for girls

ABSTRACT Drawing on historical epistemology and considerations on the function of scientific modelling, this article investigates how in the mid-twentieth century electronic and programmable animal models became tools for exploring the inaccessible ontology of the human mind. The article examines how machines have informed our understanding of the learning process and, vice versa, how the concept of

ABSTRACT This article concerns the educational philosophy of S. Margery Fry (1874–1958) and its impact upon the design, organisation and functions of university residences for women in the twentieth century. According to Carol Dyhouse, Fry, the only woman on the University Grants Committee from 1919 to 1947, ‘exerted considerable influence over the shape of provision for women across the country’.

ABSTRACT This paper uses the 1908 Oxford Report, a founding document for the Workers’ Educational Association, as a window onto the internal contradictions of the university adult education movement, an issue that has been neglected by historians of education. Examining the early history of the WEA shows that while the movement was inspired by Oxford Idealism and set itself the aim of democratising

(2020). Pioneering British women chemists: their lives and contributions, by Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article analyses how Heinz von Foerster’s Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) translated cybernetic concepts into an experimental pedagogy tailored to the interests of the youth of the American intellectual counterculture. The existing research literature assumes that the opening of BCL to the counterculture in the early 1970s was the result of a radical shift from first- to second-order

ABSTRACT Paul Natorp is better known as a key figure of Neo-Kantian epistemology than as a great educationist. This paper discusses the affinity for Natorp’s theory of education in Japan in the first decades of the twentieth century. It presents an overview of Natorp’s educational way of thinking and analyses the interest of Japanese educationists in the educational thought encapsulated in the conception

ABSTRACT This research critically examines the efforts of the British State and the various churches to re-vision the character and status of elementary school teachers in Ireland between the 1830s and the 1920s. In a climate of regular political revolution and denominational hostility, the Westminster government and all churches were anxious to promote civility, loyalty and religious allegiance among

ABSTRACT August Heißmeyer was a high-ranking SS officer, a member of Heinrich Himmler’s inner circle, husband to Reich women’s leader Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, and the driving force behind the pan-European expansion of Nazi elite schools during the Third Reich. In light of Heißmeyer’s official pardon by Württemberg state president Dr Gebhard Müller in 1951, and the continuing absence of a comprehensive

(2020). British and American school stories, 1910–1960: fiction, femininity, and friendship, by Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spencer. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). For God and country: Butler’s 1944 Education Act, by Elizabeth ‘Libi’ Sundermann. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article considers the wartime evacuation of English public schools as a result of enemy bombing as well as the commandeering of school buildings for government and military purposes. It looks at the way evacuation was privately organised by public school authorities often relying on the ‘old school tie’, while also taking financial considerations into account in the case of schools faced

ABSTRACT Following the civil war in Russia, many Russian people ended up in exile. Amongst many other challenges, they were faced with the unique threat of losing their national identity. The key defenders of Russianness were the traditional institutions of identity construction. Youth movements also assisted them in this work, through the use of the Scout method of education. This paper hypothesises

ABSTRACT This article explores representations of problems regarding citizenship in changes to the syllabi of social studies and history in Swedish secondary schools between 1970 and 2017. Previous research has shown that the general educational discourse changed from an emphasis on the societal needs of committed citizens to an emphasis on the individual’s ability to cope in a rapidly changing society

(2020). Human – learning – machines: introduction to a special section on how cybernetics and constructivism inspired new forms of learning. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). Robert Grosseteste and theories of education: the ordered human, edited by Jack P. Cunningham and Steven Puttick. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). The creative underclass: youth, race and the gentrifying city, by Tyler Denmead. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT Rousseau is among the most influential and important public moralists of the eighteenth century. His popular treatise on education, Emile, argues that parents should ideally rear their own children. It is small wonder, therefore, that his decision to place his own children in a foundling hospital has exposed Rousseau to the charge of hypocrisy and seriously damaged his credibility as a moralist

(2020). Rods, sets and arrows: the rise and fall of modern mathematics in Belgium, by Dirk de Bock and Geert Vanpaemel. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). A school in England: the history of Repton, by Hugh Brogan. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). From morality to mayhem: the fall and rise of the English school story, by Julian Lovelock. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). European school inspection and evaluation: history and principles, by Adrian Gray. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). Going to college in the sixties, by John R. Thelin. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

(2020). Nationalism, war and Jewish education: from the Roman empire to modern times, by David Aberbach. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This essay explores how both German and international educators mobilised history curricula to reshape German collective identity between 1945 and 1950, focusing particular attention on depictions of the deutsche Vertriebene (German expellees) in curricular plans and textbooks. In the mid-1940s, 12–15 million ethnic Germans were forcibly ousted from Poland, the Soviet Union and other Eastern

ABSTRACT The historiography of child guidance has focused primarily on the United States, where it first developed before travelling across the English-speaking world. The rapid expansion of child guidance in the interwar years was enabled by private philanthropy, which provided fellowships to foreign professionals to study in the United States. This article focuses upon the transnational transfer

ABSTRACT This paper examines the content of alphabet books published for Russian-speaking children in Latvia, Estonia and Poland in the 1920s and explains the nexus between socio-cultural context and representation of social environment and children’s interactions to explore strategies of adaptation offered to children. The textbooks were quantified using a target codifier. The results are embedded

(2020). Science for all: the struggle to establish school science in England, by Edgar Jenkins. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT By exploring demographic data on teachers through a Bordieusian lens, this study aims to analyse the socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden depending on gender and type. The rural area under study follows a national development where the number of primarily female teachers and junior school teachers increased rapidly between 1870 and 1910. The results show

(2020). Global exchanges: scholarships and transnational circulations in the modern world, edited by Ludovic Tournès and Giles Scott-Smith. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This article seeks to understand how adult students perceived education as disseminated by the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA). Evidence will be presented from sources not commonly studied, namely WEA student logbooks of tutorial classes. Adult students attending WEA tutorial classes in the 1920s and 1930s recorded their own personal, real-time experiences of education in the logbooks

(2020). A history of Catholic education and schooling in Scotland: new perspectives, edited by Stephen J. McKinney and Raymond McCluskey. History of Education. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the emotional experiences of elementary school inspections, from the appointment of the first State school inspectors in 1839 to 1911 when Edward Holmes, the retiring chief inspector, signposted the prospects of a new era in elementary education. The paper is arranged in two parts: the first provides an outline of the origins and development of elementary school inspection

(2020). Editorial: Cultivating children and youth: transnational explorations of the urban and the natural. History of Education: Vol. 49, Cultivating Children and Youth: Transnational Explorations of the Urban and the Natural, pp. 435-439.

ABSTRACT This article explores the history of school gardens in educational projects linked to four scholars at Teachers College (Bigelow, Dewey, Kilpatrick and Carney) during the early twentieth century. It concludes that gardening activities were designed primarily for urban children who lacked experience in farming. The role of gardening in experimental schools in the North is compared with proposals