The focus of this paper is how changes in school governance in one state primary school in a city in central Greece have resulted in a significant degree of inclusion for Roma children. This inclusivity runs counter to the disturbing occurrence of the social and ethnic segregation of a group of locally resident Roma children within schools. This…

"How helpful and how necessary is it for at least some of us to see ourselves as professional educational researchers?" asked Donald McIntyre in his 1996 presidential address to the British Educational Research Association. Still pertinent to consideration of the direction in which the British educational research community ought to…

An ecological niche framework (Hacking, 1998) is utilised to examine the growth of ADHD in North America. The analysis suggests ADHD flourishes, at least in part, due to a complex and historically situated interaction of factors that created a niche within which a particular kind of explanation and treatment for the troubling behaviours of…

The author discusses the problems which perplex us in educating for individuality while also trying to safeguard and maintain the standards cherished by the community. (Editor/KC)

The author examines in detail the social, cultural, religious, and political influences on Tanzania in order to see education for self-reliance in better perspective. He follows this examination with a discussion of the precept and practice of education for self-reliance. (KC)

Defining research as systematic, self-critical inquiry open to public criticism and/or empirical test, the author considers the relevance of scientific, historical, and educational research to practice. He asserts that teachers must be involved in educational research and that researchers must justify themselves to practitioners, not practitioners…

Recalling the early history of the School Meals Service begun in England in 1906. (MB)

Dawes' ideas on the curriculum for elementary schools, and, in particular, on the contribution of science to education, were a seminal influence throughout the nineteenth century. (Author/MB)

A study of Thomas William Marshall, who in 1847 was chosen by the Catholic Poor-School Committee to be their first inspector. (MB)

Knowledge of Vico's thoughts on pedagogy will reveal that many of the important emphases in modern educational thought were anticipated by Vico more than two centuries ago. (Author)

A rebuttal by a classicist to a sociologist's view of the classics. (MB)

This paper attempts to tell something of the Royal Academy Schools and the history of art education. (Author/RK)

Studies the life and letters of Robert Joseph, the Monk of Evesham, to better understand the social and intellectual life in England during the late Middle Ages. (DS)

The aim of this paper is to deal mainly with the fashions in lecture and debating subjects which are to be found nationally in England in the nineteenth century. (Author/RK)