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Judith Harford; Áine Hyland – History of Education, 2023
Drawing on archival material and oral testimony of former students, this paper examines the lives and experiences of women in Catholic primary teacher training colleges in Ireland in the period 1922-1974. It commences with a brief overview of the historical context in which these colleges emerged, situating their development within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, College Students, Females
Joel Barnes – History of Education, 2023
This article considers Australian receptions of C. P. Snow's "The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution" (1959), and of the controversy over the literary critic F. R. Leavis's combative 1962 response to it. Taking a lead from conceptual insights in global histories of science and the history of knowledge, the paper considers the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Historical Interpretation, Cultural Context, Science History
Kozlova, Maria – History of Education, 2020
This paper examines the content of alphabet books published for Russian-speaking children in Latvia, Estonia and Poland in the 1920s and explains the nexus between socio-cultural context and representation of social environment and children's interactions to explore strategies of adaptation offered to children. The textbooks were quantified using…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Textbooks, Russian, Cultural Context
Shechter, Relli – History of Education, 2019
The 1923 Constitution prepared the legal framework for Egypt's semi-independence from British imperial control under a newly established liberal monarchy. This Constitution carried a promise for a significant change in setting the ground for a nascent national system of mass elementary education for boys and girls that would also be free of charge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Elementary Education, Public Education
Mayer, Christine – History of Education, 2018
Late 19th-century Germany was shaped by industrialisation, technological progress, and urbanisation. Crises of modernisation resulted in a widespread criticism of civilisation that provided ground for the rise of numerous reform movements in various social contexts. They reacted to crises of their time by questioning established conventions,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Athletics, Dance, Cultural Context
Hoare, Lottie – History of Education, 2017
This paper examines controversy concerning the televising of the documentary "This Is the BBC" (1959) and situates the dispute in a wider cultural context of media criticism of Oxford University in particular, and academic educators more generally, in the period 1956-1960. Technological change, increased television ownership and a…
Descriptors: Documentaries, News Reporting, Educational History, Television
Jiménez-Alonso, Belén; Loredo-Narciandi, José Carlos – History of Education, 2016
The aim of this paper is to analyse certain techniques of subjectivation in modern child-rearing and the way in which medical discourse leads to the construction of children through those techniques. As a case study, several manuals on childcare used during the first third of the twentieth century in Spain and France have been selected. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Child Care, Child Rearing
Bloomfield, Anne; Watts, Ruth – History of Education, 2008
The educational impact of the dancing master is examined within social and cultural contexts including patronage and artistic style. The nature of the dancing master's peripatetic role and lesson content in domestic and private locations is analysed with reference to notational scores, dance treatises and archival sources. The impact on…
Descriptors: Experimental Schools, Dance, Educational Philosophy, Cultural Context
Wall, Christine – History of Education, 2008
Visual sources in the form of teachers' journals and careers literature constitute an important part of the material culture of the teaching profession, and demand examination for their impact on occupational identity. The material allows for a range of interpretations and the approach taken here is speculative, in both methodologies and analysis.…
Descriptors: Careers, Teaching (Occupation), Imagery, Unions
Grosvenor, Ian – History of Education, 2007
This paper has several concerns. It is about both the stories we tell and the images we place with those stories; it is also about historical practice and the power of the image to generate new research approaches. The paper is organized into three sections: the "eye of history" and historians and the visual archive; histories of black…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Information Sources, Historians, Educational History
Bara, Joseph – History of Education, 2005
This article discusses the project of tribal education in the British colonial state in the mid-nineteenth century and the shape into which it developed in Chhotanagpur, an obscure area of east India under the Presidency of Bengal. Known as the "Ruhr of India", it is now the southern part of the State of Jharkhand. Up to the 1840s there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, Tribes, Foreign Policy
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Cote, Joost – History of Education, 2001
Draws comparisons between the Australian education directors, Frank Tate and Jacques Henry Abendanon. Discusses educational reform issues based on racial contexts and social, political, and cultural aspects in the British colony of Victoria and the Dutch colony of Java. Concludes that, though their politcal contexts are different, their views are…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Cultural Context, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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James, Deborah – History of Education, 2001
Analyzes the effects of the 1889 Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act on East Glamorgan Valley Welsh females. Focuses on the relationships among the economic, social, and cultural factors that impacted their career choices to become teachers. Notes that the Central Welsh Board examinations were a step forward in Welsh education. (MER)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Cultural Context, Educational Change, Educational History