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'Talk about the Questions of the Day, Shun Them Not': Three Late Victorian Voices on the Place of History in English Schools
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Smith, Joseph – History of Education, 2022
This paper brings together the ideas of three writers from the 1880s who argued for an enhanced status for history in the school curriculum. Although there is superficial agreement between the writers in calling for history to develop children's citizenship and patriotism, each conceives these values differently. Focusing on the teaching of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Citizenship Education, Patriotism, Elementary School Students
The Teacher Educator and the Suffragist: Lillian de Lissa and Muriel Matters' Activism in Australia and the United Kingdom
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Whitehead, Kay – History of Education, 2021
Focusing on the transnational circulation of ideas about suffrage and education, this article explores the work of suffragist Muriel Matters (1877-1969), and teacher educator Lillian de Lissa (1885-1967). It begins with Matters' and de Lissa's childhoods and education in post-suffrage Australia, and their initial work as an actress and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Feminism, Foreign Countries, Montessori Method
Catholic Education in Zambia: Mission Integrity and Politics
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Carmody, Brendan – History of Education, 2016
This article provides the history of Catholic state-aided schooling in Zambia for over a century. It notes how the Catholic Church came to view its school to be a pivotal means of church development. By cooperation with the state it entered more fully into the nation's future by offering high-quality state-sponsored schooling. This proved to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Catholics, Catholic Schools