In the period between the First and Second World Wars, the American popular desire for peace was reflected in a number of peace education efforts. The peace education views of John Dewey and Nicholas Murray Butler are compared. (MT)

A 1911 popular-magazine article by John Dewey is analyzed along with other writings by and about him in an attempt to determine Dewey's views on women, feminism, and coeducation. (MT)

The cult of efficiency, comprised of leading lights in education early in this century, stressed the necessity of bringing more efficient industrial practices into schools. This article describes the efficiency movement and Ella Flagg Young's dissent. Young's career as teacher, professor, and superintendent of the Chicago schools is highlighted.…

This paper examines Aristotle's view of the family as providing indispensible motivations for the moral education of the young, the inadequacy of the family in providing moral education, and the need for laws to protect the community and to educate the community regarding public affairs. (MT)

This article reviews early-twentieth-century efforts to transform public schools into multipurpose social service institutions. Except in physical education, the progressive influence has been less than generally believed, whether with regard to the organization of classroom instruction or to the addition of social services and nonacademic…

Attacks upon the quality of public school education result from economic, social, and political upheavals. Three times since 1950 public schools have been blamed for the nation's problems. The pattern of these attacks on education are explored. (DF)

Developments in the fields of medicine and education, in conjunction with social conditions and intellectual climate, influenced the promotion of school based sex education in the late nineteenth century and on into the twentieth century. The complexity of the relationship between education and society is illustrated through an examination of how…

This essay considers Jean Jacques Rousseau's conception of history in "Emile" and its relationship to Rousseau's educational curriculum. History is, for Rousseau, at the heart of the curriculum and is one of the chief instruments for imparting knowledge of the world and encouraging moral behavior. (PP)

This essay draws together various ideas on education that appear in the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and demonstrates how these ideas relate to Hegel's total philosophy. Education, by retracing the path of the mind's self-realization, raises the individual's subjective consciousness to recognition of the rationality underlying social…

Both formal and nonformal schooling have failed to bring about economic change in developing countries. Assumptions guiding both types of education are shaped by capitalist or socialist myths that are deeply rooted in Western culture. Underdeveloped countries must invent their own myths to effect change through education. (PP)

The current attempts of religious and political conservatives to influence public education is placed in a wider historical context. The impact of religious groups and their ideas on the evolution of the public schools in America is traced from colonial times to the present. (PP)

Actions taken during the 1928 American Federation of Labor Convention against Brookwood Labor College are examined to demonstrate the depth and extent of anti-radicalism in this period of American labor's struggle for workers' education. (MJB)

After the late-nineteenth century, significant changes in the ideological foundations of American institutions of higher learning took place. The social contexts which produced the changes are examined, and the impact of these changes on the curricula and missions of colleges and universities is described. (IAH)

Barnes, an educator and textbook author, was a pioneer in the use of inquiry to teach secondary school history. Her work is criticized for the indoctrination it entailed and for its failure to encourage students to identify and examine the spiritual and political premises underlying the historical framework Barnes presented. (IAH)

Wayland wrote what is arguably the most influential nineteenth-century moral philosophy text. This article examines the Calvinist tradition, from which Wayland diverged; explores his views as they relate to the home and school; and describes his impact on the formation of the middle class of his day. (IAH)