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High hopes for higher education: the remarkable era of new campuses of the 1960s Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 John R. Thelin
(2021). High hopes for higher education: the remarkable era of new campuses of the 1960s. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.
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Spaces and places of education: prelude Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Luís Grosso Correia
(2021). Spaces and places of education: prelude. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.
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The invention of the classroom: republic, citizenship, and school space in Colombia: 1819–1830 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 John Jairo Cardenas-Herrera
ABSTRACT This article studies the invention of the classroom in a time of crisis – the one experienced after the independence war and in the framework of the Republic of Colombia building process (1819–1830). At that time, the expectations about the future were greater than the experiences about the past and there was confidence about the role of education in the process of transformation of the former
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Interrogating policy processes in education through Statement Archaeology: changes in English religious education Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Jonathan Doney
ABSTRACT This paper firstly presents Statement Archaeology, an innovative and rigorous method devised to systematically operationalise the approach to historical exploration used by Michel Foucault in pursuit of the question “how do certain practices become possible at particular moments in history?” Drawing on an analysis of the theoretical basis of Foucault’s broad – and arguably equivocal – approach
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The early dramatic works of Johann Amos Comenius in the context of his Pansophic pedagogical system: a reconciliation Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Z.A. Lurie, S.M. Mashevskaya
ABSTRACT The theatrical heritage of Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670), the famous Czech teacher, religious thinker, and playwright, has been for a long time underestimated. There is little research on this topic. However, theatre played a very important role within the Pansophic school. The method of theatralisation was not new, but in the age of Comenius it was comparatively poorly spread within Protestant
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Haüy, Weiß, Fröbel: the influence of nineteenth-century crystallography on the mathematics of Friedrich Fröbel’s Kindergarten. Part 2: new evidence from unpublished notes Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Michael Friedman, Jose Muñoz Alvis
ABSTRACT The following paper continues the previous part, and examines the influence of crystallography on Fröbel’s conception of mathematics. In this part we focus on yet unpublished material. These unpublished notes of Fröbel underline the visual transfer of drawing and images of crystals, mainly developed by Haüy, which were widespread at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, into
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Pictures for Schools: visual education in the classroom and the art gallery Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Natalie Bradbury
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on Pictures for Schools, an art patronage scheme established in postwar Britain by the artist and educationalist Nan Youngman (1906–1995) to sell affordable works of art to educational establishments. Highlighting the use of works of art as a pedagogical tool, Pictures for Schools is contextualised within a wider programme of visual education, which encouraged citizens to
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History pedagogic practices in Greek supplementary schools in England, past and present Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Angeliki Voskou
ABSTRACT This study was conducted at an important chronological turning point with regard to the structure of the Greek community and Greek supplementary schools in the UK. This paper, following a mixed-methods methodology, aims to examine whether pedagogic practices and norms of the past that took place in Greek supplementary schools continue to exist today, in a word of continuous socio-political
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The slow dichotomization of elementary classroom roles. 'Grammar of schooling' and the estrangement of classrooms in Western Europe (1830-1900) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Marcelo Caruso
ABSTRACT Before and during the era when mass elementary schooling took off, children populated classrooms in many roles and not only as learners. The traditional teaching situation was actually full of children in roles as instructors, inspectors, and helpers, among others. In this contribution, the dichotomisation of expected classroom roles, being a central aspect of the grammar of schooling, is
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Learning to read while reading to learn: Marcius Willson’s basal readers, science education, and object teaching, 1860–1890 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Peter B. Knupfer
ABSTRACT The essay discusses innovations in reading education by the schoolbook author Marcius Willson (1813-1905) through an examination of two popular series of basal readers he produced during and after the American Civil War. His School and Family Series (Harper & Brothers, 1860-) generated acrimonious debate about science education, literacy, and object pedagogy in the primary grades. His successor
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Freedom behind a fence: outer place and inner space in Dutch classic primers (1902–1913) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Sanne Parlevliet, Hilda T.A. Amsing
ABSTRACT Between 1902 and 1913 two acclaimed educational reformers wrote several series of children’s primers in the Netherlands. Jan Ligthart and Hindericus Scheepstra collaborated closely with the painter Cornelis Jetses who provided the illustrations. The series would become classics in both text and image. In this article the symbolic educational function of the places depicted on the illustrations
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Impact of the railroad on the reduction of illiteracy in Extremadura, Spain (1860–1940) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Francisco Javier Jaraíz-Cabanillas, José Soto-Vázquez, Ramón Pérez-Parejo, José Antonio Gutiérrez Gallego
ABSTRACT Numerous studies have analysed the relationships between the implementation of the railroad within a territory and the demographic, urban, or economic development in that territory. The aim of this study deviates somewhat to focus on the possible repercussions of the railroad line in terms of reducing illiteracy rates in Extremadura (Spain) between the second half of the nineteenth century
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Nationalism and internationalism in education in Europe in the 1920s through the eyes of an American observer Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Michael Byram
ABSTRACT This article addresses the ways in which education systems responded to the aftermath of World War I with respect to education for nationalism and internationalism. It does so by drawing on theories of internationalism and through an analysis of the writings of Daniel Prescott, an American scholar who toured European schools in the middle of the 1920s. Influenced by his experience of frontline
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Haüy, Weiß, Fröbel: the influence of nineteenth-century crystallography on the mathematics of Friedrich Fröbel’s kindergarten. Part 1: the published materials Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Michael Friedman, Jose Muñoz Alvis
ABSTRACT Friedrich Fröbel is known as the founder of the modern kindergarten and for his development of novel learning materials called Gifts and Occupations. One of the foci of Fröbel’s programme was mathematical education, which he addressed and taught through various activities that encouraged the largely implicit transmission of mathematical principles. Based on a historical analysis of Fröbel’s
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Geographical education in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Luise Fischer, Charles W. J. Withers
ABSTRACT This paper examines debates over the nature, purpose, and reform of geographical education in schools in the eighteenth-century German-speaking territories. Attention is paid to contemporaries’ concerns over the cognitive content of geography – what geography was – and, in greater detail, to their views concerning how the subject might be taught, its teaching improved, and the end in view
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Literacy and education among the nobility in post-Petrine Russia Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Igor Fedyukin
ABSTRACT Educational reforms and introduction of compulsory schooling for nobility are rightly counted among the most important changes introduced by Peter I in Russia. This article employs a large sample of records from the Heraldry, a government agency in charge of registering nobles for their mandatory service, to assess the spread of literacy among the first post-Petrine generation of the Russian
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Impact of the railroad on the reduction of illiteracy in Extremadura, Spain (1860–1940) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Francisco Javier Jaraíz-Cabanillas, José Soto-Vázquez, Ramón Pérez-Parejo, José Antonio Gutiérrez Gallego
ABSTRACT Numerous studies have analysed the relationships between the implementation of the railroad within a territory and the demographic, urban, or economic development in that territory. The aim of this study deviates somewhat to focus on the possible repercussions of the railroad line in terms of reducing illiteracy rates in Extremadura (Spain) between the second half of the nineteenth century
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Nationalism and internationalism in education in Europe in the 1920s through the eyes of an American observer Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-02 Michael Byram
ABSTRACT This article addresses the ways in which education systems responded to the aftermath of World War I with respect to education for nationalism and internationalism. It does so by drawing on theories of internationalism and through an analysis of the writings of Daniel Prescott, an American scholar who toured European schools in the middle of the 1920s. Influenced by his experience of frontline
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Haüy, Weiß, Fröbel: the influence of nineteenth-century crystallography on the mathematics of Friedrich Fröbel’s kindergarten. Part 1: the published materials Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Michael Friedman, Jose Muñoz Alvis
ABSTRACT Friedrich Fröbel is known as the founder of the modern kindergarten and for his development of novel learning materials called Gifts and Occupations. One of the foci of Fröbel’s programme was mathematical education, which he addressed and taught through various activities that encouraged the largely implicit transmission of mathematical principles. Based on a historical analysis of Fröbel’s
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Editorial Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Jeroen J. H. Dekker, Marc Depaepe, María del Mar del Pozo Andrés, Frank Simon
(2020). Editorial. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 56, Breaking boundaries: Women in higher education, pp. 723-723.
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Members of the Editorial Assistant Board 2020 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-26
(2020). Members of the Editorial Assistant Board 2020. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 56, Breaking boundaries: Women in higher education, pp. 857-857.
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Reviewers used outside the International Advisory Board 2020 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-26
(2020). Reviewers used outside the International Advisory Board 2020. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 56, Breaking boundaries: Women in higher education, pp. 858-860.
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The New Education Fellowship, the Progressive Education Association, and the US Department of State: South America as part of a complex entanglement Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Rafaela Silva Rabelo
ABSTRACT In 1943, a report sent to the executive board of the New Education Fellowship (NEF) informed the board that, during a trip to South America in 1942, Carleton Washburne had formed sections in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguay, and Brazil on the NEF’s behalf. In some publications, Washburne mentions that it was a study trip commissioned by the US Department of State but does not refer to the
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A prelude to postcolonial cultural histories of education: “reading” Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Hannah M. Tavares
ABSTRACT The focus on colonial power and domination tend to muffle the emotional complexities, ambiguous attachments, and cultural paradoxes of persons who become wards of colonial educational systems. Drawing on feminist thought, film philosophy, and postcolonial cultural theories, Hannah M. Tavares provides a reading of Amanda Kernell’s film Sami Blood. Tavares argues that the focalisation on the
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Hegemonic: the trajectory of political theory at Makerere University College, 1949–1968 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Edward Silvestre Kaweesi
ABSTRACT This paper posits that the foundations of the teaching of political theory at Makerere University College obtain from British and American hegemony. The hegemonic tendencies are exemplified by the content of what was taught as political theory, the nature of the teaching staff in the Department of Political Science – the country of origin, the institution where they trained, and their research
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Expectation versus reality: how visual media use in Belgian Catholic secondary schools was envisioned, encouraged and put into practice (c. 1900–1940) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Nelleke Teughels
ABSTRACT In the early nineteenth century, the ideas of reform pedagogues gave rise to a didactic turn towards the visual that criticised an exclusive textual mediation of knowledge through books and lectures. To raise educational effectualness, teachers came under increasing pressure to incorporate high-profile media technologies into their lessons. Yet, top-down initiatives to implement new instructional
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Teaching the “non-examinable” Estella Lewis’s contribution to post-war history education in the UK Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-14 Christopher Edwards
ABSTRACT Estella Lewis’s handbook for teachers, Teaching History in Secondary Schools, published in 1960, is examined to reflect upon the teaching of history in the UK during the postwar period, a text that addresses the “problem” of teaching history to “non-academic” children attending secondary modern schools. Lewis’s ideas, attitudes, and values towards this question are explored fully in order
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Views on local space and identities: the teacher folklore survey (Argentina, 1921) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Myriam Southwell
ABSTRACT The 1920s decade was extremely rich in terms of processes and problems of singular relevance and was also a prolific decade in terms of debates and generation of new proposals. The social climate of the postwar period put into crisis the most rationalist precepts installed by nineteenth-century liberalism and favoured the inclusion of forms of knowledge linked to the spiritual and sensitivity
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Revival or bilingualism? The impact of European nationalist thinking on Irish language curricular policy around the advent of political independence in Ireland Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2021-01-13 Thomas Walsh
ABSTRACT Following a period of close to a century when the Irish language was placed at the margins of the education system under British rule, there was a radical change in curriculum provision following political independence in Ireland in the 1920s. The importance of the Irish language in defining sovereignty, national identity, and nationhood in the Irish Free State was central to these curricular
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Educating the Volksgemeinschaft: authoritarian ideals and school reforms in Europe’s fascist era Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Anja Giudici, Thomas Ruoss, Sarah van Ruyskensvelde
(2020). Educating the Volksgemeinschaft: authoritarian ideals and school reforms in Europe’s fascist era. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 56, Educating the Volksgemeinschaft Authoritarian ideals and school reforms in Europe’s fascist era, pp. 569-571.
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Authoritarianism and education in the interwar period: a history and its renewal Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Jürgen Oelkers
ABSTRACT The article will discuss some central relations between political authoritarianism and right-wing education in the interwar period. Then it is asked why these concepts and powers are renewed in today’ s politics and education. And in the end it shows what research gaps exist and how the articles of this special issue could fill them.
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Morality and citizenship in English schools: secular approaches 1897–1944 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Jonathan Doney
(2020). Morality and citizenship in English schools: secular approaches 1897–1944. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.
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Die Nation im Kanon: Literaturunterricht als Bühne politischer Deutungskämpfe in Spanien 1898–1990 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Arno Gimber
(2020). Die Nation im Kanon: Literaturunterricht als Bühne politischer Deutungskämpfe in Spanien 1898–1990. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.
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Identification and alienation: Aliza Levenberg’s educational work in Kiryat Shmona in the early 1960s Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Amir Goldstein, Tamar Hager
ABSTRACT This article focuses on Aliza Levenberg, an educator who taught at a Kiryat Shmona high school at the beginning of the 1960s. For three years Levenberg, a middle class Western European, travelled every week from her home in Tel Aviv to the poor town in the northern periphery of Israel, the inhabitants of which were mainly immigrants from Islamic countries. Levenberg was a productive writer
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Miguel Servet en España (1506-1527) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Enrique González González
(2020). Miguel Servet en España (1506-1527). Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.
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“Die Lernmaschinen waren ... ein Zückerchen”: das Gelfinger Schulexperiment von 1968 bis 1972 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Daniel Deplazes
ABSTRAKT Initiantinnen und Initianten von Schulreformen warteten meist mit ambitionierten Versprechen wie Effizienzsteigerung, Individualisierung oder Humanisierung auf. So auch in der Unterrichtstechnologiedebatte der 1960er und 1970er Jahre, in der die Wortführenden dank neuer Unterrichtsmedien wie Schulfernsehen, Sprachlabore oder sogenannter Lernmaschinen u.a. eine Effizienzsteigerung des Unterrichts
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The history of language learning and teaching Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Britta Juska-Bacher
(2020). The history of language learning and teaching. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.
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Colonial state and indigenous Islamic learning: a case study of Calcutta Madrasa Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Amit Kumar Suman
ABSTRACT The Calcutta madrasa was one of the many institutions which witnessed recurrent attempts at reform in Muslim societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the eleventh century, when madrasas first emerged as the principal institution of higher Islamic learning, it has undergone many changes, adapting in varying degrees to local cultures and changing times. Given the centrality
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History of Turkish language education in the process of educational modernisation of Ottoman: from the 1770s to 1890s Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Ersoy Topuzkanamış
ABSTRACT It is commonly acknowledged that the roots of contemporary education in Turkey have been cultivated following the declaration of the republic in 1923 and previous accounts are rarely mentioned. This mindset is similar for several fields except for areas such as religious education and moral education. The research related to the history of teaching of Turkish mostly focuses on the republic
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Let us truly be Brazilian women: representations and teaching practices of normal school female students of São Paulo in the 20th century Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Jorge Luís Mazzeo Mariano, Raimunda Abou Gebran
ABSTRACT This paper aims to analyse how the first teacher training experiences happened in the last pioneer fringe in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, from the perspective of former female students and teachers. The institutions focused on are the Institute of Education Fernando Costa, from Presidente Prudente/SP, and the Institute of Education Antônio Marinho de Carvalho Filho, from Presidente Venceslau/SP
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“A glorious future” for Africa: development, higher education and the making of African elites in the United States (1961–1971) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Anton Tarradellas
ABSTRACT At the time of African independence, the concept of higher education for development took hold in the programmes of the new African governments and in the aid projects of the former colonial powers, the United States, the USSR, and international organisations. All agreed on the need to place higher education at the service of Africa’s development and, to that end, to train the elites capable
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Civilisation and the Italian school toilet: insights for the cultural history of education Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Fabio Pruneri
ABSTRACT The term “toilet” conveys different meanings; it may be seen as an isolated place or a public service, a secluded and dirty area or a symbol of civilisation and progress. In the film The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Luis Buñuel presented a formally dressed social group gathering over a meal in toilets around a table, with the eating of food being presented as a private function. In this way
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Pedagogical knowledge as a distinct object in the history of education: the example of Ontario, Canada Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Patrice Milewski
ABSTRACT Using the example of the 1937 Ontario elementary school reforms, this article will make the case for considering pedagogical knowledge as a distinct object in the history of education. In this context, pedagogical knowledge refers to the conceptual and normative aspects of teaching and learning that seek to inform the decision-making of the teacher in relation to children (childhood), teaching
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Investigating the potential of cultural-historical activity theory for studying specific transitions in the history of education Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Thomas O’Donoghue, Judith Harford
ABSTRACT In recent years, and particularly with the emergence of cultural history, historians of education have begun to adopt a wide variety of theoretical approaches to their scholarship. Notwithstanding this, cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) remains underutilised in the field of history of education, despite being employed widely in other domains of education research. This paper illustrates
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A creative solution to “The problem of shelter”: photographs of a university campus on an air base 1948–1969 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Frances Kelly
ABSTRACT Universities exert effort and expense in designing buildings to fit the current ontology and meet the perceived needs of society. This is not new – historically, entire campuses were designed to manifest pedagogical and social ideals, like the (Coulson, Roberts and Taylor, 2015) of Thomas Jefferson’s imagination.1 1 Jonathan Coulson, Paul Roberts, and Isabelle Taylor, University Planning and
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The first female lecturers at Spanish universities Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Consuelo Flecha-García
ABSTRACT This article analyses the first women to hold teaching and research positions in Spanish universities during the first third of the twentieth century. It traces the paths of the pioneers who used their intellectual capacity to broaden the scope for their working lives. Legal changes introduced in 1910 made it possible for women with a university degree to work as professors in the university
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Afterword: histories of women’s higher education, time, and temporalities Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Joyce Goodman
ABSTRACT The Afterword focuses on the question of time and the temporalities, rhythms, and tempos that thread through the special issue and shed light on change, contingency, and continuity as women sought to become and to be academics and to belong in the academy. I deploy a notion of multiple temporalities in which time comprises both a singular whole and specific fragments that flow with varying
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Counseling US women for economic citizenship: Deans of women and the beginnings of vocational guidance Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Kelly C. Sartorius
ABSTRACT Historians of education have argued that the field of vocational guidance was founded by men in Boston in 1909, and that these guidance practices were not used in a college setting until the mid-1940s after the close of World War II. This article illustrates the history of early female student affairs practitioners developing and implementing vocational career guidance with women college students
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Catedráticos in the making of the Spanish secondary education system, 1861–1885 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-05 Pau Insa-Sánchez
ABSTRACT The study of secondary education teachers in nineteenth-century Spain has traditionally been undertaken from the perspective of specific individuals or high schools. However, national sources about this body of public servants have not been exploited in a systematic manner, thus impeding the attainment of aggregate perspectives. This paper provides such overview using the promotion rosters
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Sex, death, and alienation: the burdened history of classroom pets in the American curriculum Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-10-02 Kipton D. Smilie
ABSTRACT While both human-animal studies (HAS) and explorations of the educative potential of animals in classrooms have exploded in recent decades, the different roles served by classroom pets in the history of the American curriculum have received scant critical attention. Pets were a central feature of family life since the founding of the American Republic, but primary sources in American education
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Breaking boundaries: women in higher education Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 Simonetta Polenghi, Tanya Fitzgerald
ABSTRACT Over the last century, higher education has profoundly changed the contours of women’s lives. While securing an academic or professional qualification has significantly opened up opportunities for educated women, the shifting possibilities for work have not been uniformly experienced. Themes of resistance, moral outrage, and bureaucratic invisibility emerge to highlight the continuities and
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Women teachers and the feminisation of the teaching profession in a Finnish journal for primary school teachers (The Teacher), 1915–1920 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Marjo Nieminen
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the discussions about the feminisation of the teaching profession that were covered in the Finnish journal of primary school teachers, The Teacher (Opettajain Lehti), during the years 1915 to 1920. The Teacher, a weekly trade union journal, published the writings of various stakeholders (for example, teachers, school inspectors, the counsellor of education representing
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The “Haunting Silence”: autobiographical accounts of secondary teaching in twentieth-century Ireland Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-09-08 Brendan Walsh
ABSTRACT This article employs five teacher autobiographies in an attempt to examine their contribution to the history of teaching in Ireland. The article argues that such autobiographies provide significant insights into the history of the classroom and often represent subversive and disruptive narratives. As such they represent a valuable but overlooked source.
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Public school life during the Victorian fin-de-siècle: Compton Mackenzie’s Sinister Street novel Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Oliver Hadingham
ABSTRACT The two-volume novel Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972), a Scottish writer more famous now for his later comic novels, tends to be overlooked in the list of novels depicting English public school life. The first volume of Mackenzie’s novel traces the protagonist’s public school career at the nineteenth century’s close. Despite the sensitivity required when dealing with fiction
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The transnational dissemination of the infant school to the periphery of Europe: the role of primary schools, religion, travels, and handbooks in the case of nineteenth-century Sweden Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Johannes Westberg
ABSTRACT The infant school was a nineteenth-century innovation with British roots that quickly achieved an international reputation. This article contributes to the study of the transnational dissemination of the infant schools by examining the case of Swedish infant schools. Using theoretical concepts from the transnational history of education, this article focuses on how the model of infant schools
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Réformer l’Empire: éducation de base et développement en Afrique coloniale française (1945–1956) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Damiano Matasci
ABSTRACT After the Second World War, the French colonial administration undertook about 15 experiments in fundamental education in several villages of West and Equatorial Africa. Carried out by small teams of experts, including Africans, their aims were to raise the living standards of rural and often isolated communities, to improve hygiene and nutrition conditions, and to promote new agricultural
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“Pacemakers report”: GDR pedagogical innovators and the collection of Pädagogische Lesungen, 1952–1989 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Josefine Wähler, Maria-Annabel Hanke
ABSTRACT This article focuses on a library collection containing around 9,000 titles of Pädagogische Lesungen [Pedagogical Lectures] (PL), compiled and centrally awarded in the GDR from 1961 to 1989. This contribution gives an initial overview of the current state of research and a comprehensive description of the material diversity of the collection. Besides the historical specificity and heterogeneous
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Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Sylvia Kesper-Biermann
(2020). Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.
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When protons were gendered: women in the School of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Athens (1922–1967) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Panagiotis Kimourtzis, Vicky Sigountou
ABSTRACT The first women in Greek academia appeared during the period in question (1922–1967) and entered the ivory tower by overcoming difficult conditions and circumstances, often with many restrictions and setbacks. This essay focuses on the School of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Athens, documents quantitative and qualitative data on the female presence, and illuminates the different
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Formación de los Sistemas Educativos Nacionales en Hispanoamérica. El caso ecuatoriano, 1895–1912 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2020-07-31 G. Antonio Espinoza
(2020). Formación de los Sistemas Educativos Nacionales en Hispanoamérica. El caso ecuatoriano, 1895–1912. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.