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Amsing, Hilda T. A.; Greveling, Linda; Dekker, Jeroen J. H. – History of Education, 2013
This article focuses on how Dutch newspapers represented the debate in the Netherlands in the 1970s on comprehensive education and thus influenced the Dutch Middle School experiment. Wiborg's identification of key factors of success in Scandinavia was used as a point of reference. The article shows that these key factors did not exist in the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Secondary Education, Educational Innovation, News Reporting
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Allender, Tim – History of Education, 2007
Postcolonial research has often assumed that colonial education fell victim to the forces of nationalism, like other areas of Raj governance in the early twentieth century. However, European-led education that aspired to reach the general population had already failed a generation earlier, at least in north India. This was after highly imaginative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Administrative Organization, Foreign Policy