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Dolatkhah, Mats; Hampson Lundh, Anna – History of Education, 2016
This study investigates reading activities in Swedish primary school classrooms during the late 1960s. Sound and video recordings of 223 Swedish lessons held between 1967 and 1969 are used to analyse the activity of reading as taught and performed. The results indicate that the practice of informational reading, often based on finding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Elementary Education, Classroom Observation Techniques
Barron, Hester – History of Education, 2013
This article examines the experience of the "school journey", an educational fieldtrip of a fortnight's duration, as practised in London's interwar elementary schools. Established historical debates over perceptions of the countryside in interwar Britain have previously failed to discuss the messages promoted in schools. This article…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Rural Areas, Ideology, Nationalism
Wylie, Caitlin Donahue – History of Education, 2012
The blackboard, a useful teaching tool in nineteenth-century England, was transformed into a teaching necessity in the decades following 1870, when the Education Acts made school free and mandatory for all children. The resulting huge population of schoolchildren inspired the development of teaching techniques appropriate for large-group learning.…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Chalkboards, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Kozlovsky, Roy – History of Education, 2010
This essay explores the interplay between educational and architectural methodologies for analysing the school environment. It historicises the affinity between architectural and educational practices and modes of knowledge pertaining to the child's body during the period of postwar reconstruction in England to argue that educational spaces were…
Descriptors: Architecture, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment