Publication Date
In 2024 | 0 |
Since 2023 | 0 |
Since 2020 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2015 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2005 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
Source
History of Education | 2 |
Author
Burke, Catherine | 1 |
Walsh, Patrick | 1 |
Publication Type
Historical Materials | 2 |
Journal Articles | 2 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Education Level
Elementary Education | 2 |
Audience
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Education and the "Universalist" Idiom of Empire: Irish National School Books in Ireland and Ontario
Walsh, Patrick – History of Education, 2008
This paper compares the founding of the elementary school systems of Ireland and Ontario in the nineteenth century. The systems shared a common set of textbooks that had originated in Ireland. Using examples from a number of these books, which were part of a series that had been specially prepared for the Irish national school system, founded in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Textbook Evaluation, Elementary School Curriculum
Burke, Catherine – History of Education, 2005
Between the years 1918 and 1953 a remarkable and sustained experiment in education occurred at an unremarkable village elementary school mid-way between Manchester and Bolton in Lancashire, England. Prestolee School at the heart of the industrial mill town of Kearsley was transformed by the head teacher, Edward Frances O'Neill (1890?1975).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Sources, Leadership Responsibility