(2021). High hopes for higher education: the remarkable era of new campuses of the 1960s. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.

(2021). Spaces and places of education: prelude. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.

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

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

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

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 In this part we focus on yet unpublished material. These unpublished notes of Fröbel underline the visual transfer of drawing and images of crystals, mainly developed by Haüy, which were widespread at the turn of the eighteenth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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(2020). Editorial. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 56, Breaking boundaries: Women in higher education, pp. 723-723.

(2020). Members of the Editorial Assistant Board 2020. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 56, Breaking boundaries: Women in higher education, pp. 857-857.

(2020). Reviewers used outside the International Advisory Board 2020. Paedagogica Historica: Vol. 56, Breaking boundaries: Women in higher education, pp. 858-860.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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.

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.

(2020). Morality and citizenship in English schools: secular approaches 1897–1944. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.

(2020). Die Nation im Kanon: Literaturunterricht als Bühne politischer Deutungskämpfe in Spanien 1898–1990. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.

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

(2020). Miguel Servet en España (1506-1527). Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.

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

(2020). The history of language learning and teaching. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

(2020). Friedrich Adolph Wilhelm Diesterweg. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.

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

(2020). Formación de los Sistemas Educativos Nacionales en Hispanoamérica. El caso ecuatoriano, 1895–1912. Paedagogica Historica. Ahead of Print.