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Big administration reforms against Catholic reformist traditions: fusion of state and church mid-level school administrations in early nineteenth-century Prussian Silesia Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Jan Uredat
In what are often described as modern Western school systems, the supervision of elementary schools generally shifted from the hands of clerical administrators to genuine state officials during the...
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Examens, grades et diplômes. La validation des compétences par les universités du XIIe siècle à nos jours Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Luigiaurelio Pomante
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Practices of reading and writing. Jean Daniel Revel and 19th-century Waldensian immigration in Uruguay Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Gerardo Garay Montaner
This article critically examines the life trajectory of Jean Daniel Revel, an immigrant who arrived on the coast of the River Plate during the 19th century. Revel played a pivotal role in the forma...
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The transnational entanglements of James Liberty Tadd’s drawing curriculum: a curious chapter in the history of human potential Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Noah W. Sobe
In 1928 the Yugoslav journal Radna Škola put forward the perplexing claim that James Liberty Tadd (1853–1917) was one of the most significant and influential American educators. Why was this otherw...
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Transnational knowledge circulation and the Commission on Manual and Practical Instruction in Ireland, 1896–98 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Thomas Walsh, Tom O’Donoghue
Over the past 20 years, “transnational knowledge circulation” has become a powerful theoretical construct for use by historians of education seeking to identify, characterise, and account for the n...
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American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Stephen Jackson
This article explores the connection between American exceptionalism and empire denialism by examining high-school World History textbooks approved for use in the state of Texas from the 1920s to 2...
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The second career of social justice activist and philanthropist Jean Fairfax (1920–2019) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Andrea Walton
Jean Emily Fairfax’s life (1920–2019) essentially comprised two careers – the first, as a Legal Defense Fund staffer during the civil rights movement of the 1960s and subsequent efforts to implemen...
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Lombardo Radice’s serene school as his link to idealism Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Emilio Conte
The contribution intends to illustrate Lombardo Radice’s ties with idealism and specifically with the Gentile heritage, starting from the reflection on didactics carried out by the Sicilian educati...
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Ambivalent egalitarians? Pietists and the pedagogy of the “Pariah” in modern South India during the nineteenth century Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 M. Christhu Doss
The pedagogy of the colonising British in nineteenth-century India was critical of traditional Indian education for various reasons. The proselytising pedagogists who viewed the cultural practice o...
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Paedagogica Historica themed issue: gaining momentum – new cultural histories of education and disability Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Pieter Verstraete, Maria Romeiras Amado, Carlos Manique
In this themed issue of Paedagogica Historica, editors Pieter Verstraete, Maria Romeiras, and Carlos Manique aim to merge the flourishing fields of disability history and the history of education. ...
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“With utmost caution and restraint.” The making of Roman Catholic sex education in the German-speaking area, 1900s to 1930s Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Paul M. Horntrich
While the emergence of sex education in the early 20th century is well studied, religious reactions to it remained under-studied. The paper addresses this gap by analysing the emergence of Roman Ca...
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Vacillating between cosmopolitanism and nationalism: German elite intellectuals in German-American academic diplomacy (1901–1916) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Sijie Wang
The success of the Alliance Française in the United States inspired Germany to enhance its relations with the USA from a cultural perspective. Germany’s own cultural policy traditions and its forei...
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Education as spectacle: Helen Keller and the impossible performance of blindness at the Perkins Institution Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Kevin Daniel Goldstein
This article takes as its point of departure an incident in which Helen Keller was accused of plagiarising a short story while residing at the Perkins Institution for the Blind: the so-called “Fros...
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Designing deaf spaces: education, hygiene, and citizenship in nineteenth-century France Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Sun-Young Park
This article examines the changing architectural environments of deaf education in the nineteenth century, taking the national institutes in Paris and Bordeaux as its main focus. Founded in the lat...
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Hungarian choral tradition from the music pedagogical reforms to the end of the twentieth century Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Márta Dallos
In the first half of the twentieth century a vast transformation in Hungarian school music education occurred. The ideological foundations of music pedagogical reforms and the means of their implem...
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Modernity and democracy in normal school: the School Republic in the 1920 reform in São Paulo (Brazil) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Ana Clara Bortoleto Nery, Tony Honorato
At a time when extremist movements are gaining proportions on the world stage, it is relevant to reanalyse experiences that intended to establish democracy as a principle in school education. The S...
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From Imperial Russia to the Soviet Union: formal and non-formal vocational education in Kyrgyz lands in 1917–1918 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Yavuz Ercan Gül, Mustafa Orçan
This study aims to examine the vocational training activities carried out in Kyrgyz lands during the transition from Imperial Russia to the Soviet Union and the role of these activities in the cons...
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(Re)shaping Ottoman women: the construction of female subjectivities through educational discourse in women’s magazines (1869–1908) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Badegül Eren-Aydınlık
This paper explores how female subjectivities were constructed in the educational discourse in women’s magazines published in the Ottoman language from the first magazine that was published in 1869...
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Knowledge, literacy, and elementary education in the Old Babylonian period Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Nadya Amalia Putri Hapsari
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Undoing the knots. A gender-historical perspective on debates about kindergarten in German-speaking Switzerland (1950–1980) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Andrea De Vincenti
This article discusses how a gender-historical perspective may still be productive in today’s historiography of education. In doing so, it relies on theoretical approaches developed in feminist and...
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Internationaliser l’éducation. La France, l’UNESCO et la fin des empires coloniaux en Afrique (1945–1961) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Pierre Guidi
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Maniera and the education of a painter: iterations of Mannerist art theory in academic classicist doctrine and its critique Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Wiktoria Szawiel, Mónica Raleiras
This article seeks to discuss narratives underlying the debate on artistic training and (self)education of artists in two distinguished moments: the sixteenth-century Italian Mannerism and nineteen...
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The cultural component in language education: its implementation in secondary school course books for teaching English in Soviet Ukraine (1930s–1980s) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Olha Misechko, Tamara Lytniova
The present article is a result of historical investigation into the cultural aspects of English language education in secondary schools of Ukraine in the 1930s–1980s, when Ukraine was one of the r...
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Democratisation of the Polish school system – an example of representative institutions, their history and functioning Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rafał Pląsek
The article discusses the role of institutions of representation – understood as one of the examples of the idea of democratisation – in the construction of the Polish school system. The basic chan...
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“Educating children to follow the voice of their conscience” – a comparative study of the Dutch educationalists Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm (1875–1951) and Martinus Jan Langeveld (1905–1989) within the context of early twentieth-century Europe Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Marloes Hoencamp, John Exalto, Abraham de Muynck, Doret de Ruyter
Two of the greatest Dutch educationalists of the twentieth century, Philipp Abraham Kohnstamm (1875–1951) and Martinus Jan Langeveld (1905–1989), believed that education meant, above all, the forma...
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Guiding teachers guiding students: the birth of homeroom and historical questions of teacher autonomy Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Kipton D. Smilie
In the 1930s schooling in the United States underwent fundamental transformations, ultimately responding to the profound social, economic, and technological changes taking place in the early decade...
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Histories of educational technologies. Introducing the cultural and social dimensions of pedagogical objects Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Simonetta Polenghi
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Spanish scholars started to pay particular attention to the history of schools’ material culture, defining this as “etnohistoria de la escuela”. Reflec...
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Big Bird teaches English: Sesame Street’s globalisation in Japan and Korea Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Wooyeong Kim
This study examines the global expansion strategies that were initiated by the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW), with a specific focus on the adaptations of Sesame Street in Japan and South Kor...
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Subject-specific classroom: technologisation of the pedagogical space in East Germany (SBZ/GDR, 1949–1989) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Kerrin von Engelhardt, Josefine Wähler
This paper examines the technologisation of the pedagogical space “classroom”. We will discuss the development and establishment of the subject-specific classroom system in the German Democratic Re...
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A new source for historical-educative research: commercial catalogue of educational aids. First methodological reflections Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Francesca Davida Pizzigoni
In recent years, the commercial catalogues of businesses that produce teaching aids – which, prompted by the spread of a pedagogical vision linked to activism, first appeared in the second half of ...
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Primary school bathrooms as hybrid technologies: materials, objects and practices (Buenos Aires, 1880-1930) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Lucila da Silva
This article aims to share part of some middle-term research focused on Argentinian school bathrooms. Bathrooms in Argentina emerged around 1850 and have been present – with nuances – in public and...
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Sixt Birck’s school theatre: education and theology in the era of the Reformation Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Zinaida Andreevna Lurie
The article analyses the theatre of Sixt Birck, an evangelical teacher of the Reformation era, within educational and practical pedagogical background of the period. It is proved that in Basel, whe...
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Safety between the lines – the role, meaning and practice of pen-pal writing in the life of a young Finnish evacuee girl (1939–1945) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Antti Malinen, Mervi Kaarninen
This article examines the role, meaning, and practice of letter writing in the lives of two Finnish girls during the Second World War (WWII). We use a particular set of letters (N = 41) from the wa...
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Book review: from school inspectors to school inspection. Supervision of schools in Europe from the middle ages to modern times Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jan Uredat
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Article of the Year Award Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Vol. 59, No. 6, 2023)
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Reviewer Thank-You List 2023 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Vol. 59, No. 6, 2023)
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Reviewers used outside of the International Advisory Board 2023 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Vol. 59, No. 6, 2023)
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Julian Huxley and a biological approach to education in British East Africa during the interwar era Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Peter Kallaway
During the 1930s there was a significant shift in the debate about African colonial education. Above all, somewhat discreetly hidden behind the formal language of the educational documents, is the ...
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Experimental education projects and their data collection. Policy history on experiments with “children’s life questions” in welfare-state Sweden late 1960s to early 1970s Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mette Buchardt, Katarina Kärnebro
During the twentieth century, an increasing amount of data was collected in connection with engineering of the modern states including their education systems. In the Nordic welfare states post WW2...
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Each young in his place so the country does not continue wasting its invaluable human capital: confluences of educational languages in a reformist experience (Chile, c.1964–c.1970) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Pablo Toro-Blanco
Against the backdrop of the Educational Reform in Chile since 1965, this article sheds light on the convergence of educational language based upon the economic notion of developmentalism, the idea ...
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Hungarian minority education based on a review of the national curricula from 1777 to 1907 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Ágnes Klein, Edina Haslauer
This study is a systemic examination of three Hungarian national curricula and their effects on minority students’ education over 130 years beginning in 1777, when a uniform, state-regulated school...
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The Ontario educational association: transnational networks and curriculum reform in the early twentieth century Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Patrice Milewski, Annmarie Valdes
Originally founded in 1861 as the Teachers’ Association of Canada West (TACW), the Ontario Educational Association (OEA) was a fixture on the education scene in Ontario for one hundred twenty-five ...
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Technology deficit or technologies of schooling – seeing curricular planning and teachers’ knowledge within a systems-theoretical understanding of technology Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Daniel Töpper
This essay starts with the classical assertion of Niklas Luhmann that there exist no pedagogic technologies, but takes up parts of his conceptual understanding of technology to describe and underst...
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“Native” and “colonial” objects. Changing constellations of affordances and the erosion of inherited teaching roles in colonial India Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Marcelo Caruso
This article asks whether the slow process of divesting Indian native schoolteachers of their traditional authority was only about new concepts and representations of education and knowledge. Follo...
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La leçon de choses: évolution et déclinaison d’une méthode didactique dans la pédagogie mondiale Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Matteo Morandi
La leçon de choses est une modalité didactique particulière répandue en Europe et dans le monde occidentalisé au cours du XIXe siècle, diversement déclinée selon les contextes nationaux sous le nom...
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Foreign-language teachers’ associations’ journey from the Soviet period to the XXI century: the Estonian case Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Merilyn Meristo, Tuuli Oder, Karola Velberg
ABSTRACT The Soviet period is described as a highly centralised top-down system where schools and teachers had little to say about managerial topics. Instead, change was initiated by the resolutions and decisions of the Ministry of Education. This article aims to shed light on the establishment of Foreign-Language Subject Councils in Soviet Estonia in the 1960s, how and why they turned into communities
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Education in world history Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Moh. Ferdi Hasan, Huzdaeni Rahmawati
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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In the footsteps of the masters. Interview with the history of education Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Attila Nóbik
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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How the influenza pandemic 1918/19 affected teacher education and schools in several ways − a case study from Switzerland Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-15 Lukas Boser, Kaspar Staub
ABSTRACT Outbreaks of respiratory infections have impact on schools. The present article draws upon sources from the school archives of the former teachers’ seminary Muristalden in the city of Bern in Switzerland. The aim is to ascertain how the various pandemic waves 1918/1919 affected school operations and the people living at Muristalden. During the summer wave 1918 (Phase A), the summer vacations
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Exceptional women in science education? Émilie Du Châtelet and Maria Gaetana Agnesi Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Maria Tamboukou
ABSTRACT In this paper the author considers the educational experiences and ideas of Émilie Du Châtelet and Maria Gaetana Agnesi, two women mathematicians, scientists and philosophers in eighteenth-century Europe. By tracing their historical emergence as subjects of scientific knowledge, as well as creators of philosophy and culture, the author argues that we need to revisit the history of women’s
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Rise, fall, and resurrection of educational technologies: the curious case of Decroly in Spain Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 María del Mar del Pozo Andrés
This article, delivered as one of two keynote lectures at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) in Milan in September 2022, offers an example of an autosociobio...
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Evolutionary science in denominational colleges at Australian universities, 1907–2020 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Joel Barnes
ABSTRACT This article examines the place of evolutionary science in protestant and Catholic residential colleges associated with Australian public universities across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although faith-based universities are a relatively recent phenomenon in Australia, a quasi-federal model of secular teaching and accrediting universities linked to church-run non-teaching
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Authentic context as educational object and green spaces as pedagogical environment: the approach to outdoor learning in the practice of Sreten Adžić (1856–1933) Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Aleksandra Ilić Rajković, Nataša Nikolić
The study deals with the outdoor learning approach developed by Sreten Adžić (1856–1933), who is considered the founder of the outdoor learning movement in Serbia. He greatly influenced pedagogical...
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American academic cultures: a history of higher education Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Kevin S. Zayed
Published in Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Organisation, attendance, and gained knowledge: a case-study of local variations in parish schools and ironworks schools in northern Sweden Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Lina Spjut, Fredrik Olsson Spjut
ABSTRACT Sweden’s first Elementary School Act of 1842 stated that every parish was obliged to organise and fund schools to be offered to all children in the parish. Many parishes were poor and had a difficult time funding schools. In some parishes, local industries, such as ironworks, organised, funded, and managed schools for their workers. Even though state regulations might have striven for more
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“Deprived and disadvantaged”: federal advocacy for gifted youth in the United States, 1967–1987 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Sevan G. Terzian, Hannah Williams
ABSTRACT In 1972, the United States Office of Education (USOE) released a lengthy and unprecedented report about gifted education in response to a Congressional mandate. Both Congress and the USOE lamented the inadequate state of gifted programmes in American schools and urged that gifted education should become a greater national priority. In this essay, we argue that the federal government revived
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Skill, its agencies and institutions: the formation of human capital in nineteenth-century western India Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Dhiraj Kumar Nite, Anjali Kumari, Shuchi Agrawal, Gaurav Setty
ABSTRACT This article advances an explanation for the dynamics of agencies and institutions responsible for the formation of skills in nineteenth-century western India. It shows that multiple agencies – artisanal apprenticeship, indigenous schools, new bazar schools, modern vernacular and English schools, and institutes for technical, industrial and practical instructions – played a limited but responsive
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Discussions on academic women and women scholars in two magazines of the Finnish women’s movement, 1890–1939 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Marjo Nieminen
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the history of Finnish academic women and examines the discussions about women’s academic education and women scholars that took place in two Finnish magazines of the women’s movement between 1890 and 1939. The article examines how the two magazines addressed the topics and represented academic women and women scholars. The results indicate that at first, access to
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“Making teaching cheap”: secondary employment and feminisation in elementary schools in the Uppsala region in central Sweden, 1861–1910 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Jakob Evertsson
ABSTRACT The introduction of elementary schools in Sweden (and elsewhere) in the mid-nineteenth century required the quick hiring of many new teachers, which in turn posed challenges about their financing. This paper analyses school inspectors’ reports and teachers’ journals to illuminate local strategies to provide affordable teaching in the Uppsala region in central Sweden from 1861 to 1910. The
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¿Pizarra o papel? La lenta transformación de las escuelas en México, 1880–1920 Paedagogica Historica (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 María Eugenia Chaoul
La transición hacia el uso del papel para la enseñanza de la escritura en las escuelas elementales públicas en México no fue sencilla. Al finalizar el siglo XIX, se había cuestionado el uso de las ...