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Holland, Alison – History of Education, 2023
The question of 'native' education became urgent in interwar Britain in the context of imperial expansion in Africa. Simultaneously, debates concerning black education were central to a global pan-African nationalist movement demanding black rights and liberation. In this context, education became a site of competing ideas regarding black…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, War, Blacks
Marsden, Beth – History of Education, 2023
This paper examines how government approaches to education were contested by Aboriginal communities in the late 1930s, through organised political actions designed in part to ensure access to the same standard of education and schooling available to non-Aboriginal people. It explores some of the ways that Aboriginal campaigns for education were…
Descriptors: Educational History, Indigenous Populations, Public Schools, Foreign Countries
Paisley, Fiona – History of Education, 2023
In 1936, Prof A. P. Elkin attended a seminar in Hawaii lasting several weeks, on the topic of 'native education.' In his various papers presented to a range of experts from the region and beyond during the formal conference held in Honolulu as part of the residency, Elkin set out his views on the future of the Indigenous people of Australia.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Educational Anthropology
Ballantyne, Tony – History of Education, 2023
Education was a crucial transfer point within modern imperial projects; it was a key domain through which relationships between the state, religious institutions, various agents of reform, and Indigenous, colonised and enslaved peoples were negotiated. Exploring a range of case studies, this article highlights the multiple trajectories of colonial…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Educational History, Religious Factors, Social Action
Close, Kirstie – History of Education, 2023
While Fiji was a British colony, in the early twentieth century, education to Indigenous Fijians was delivered by missions including the Methodist Overseas Mission of Australasia. As argued here, education delivery was influenced by policies for African Americans. Policies from Tuskegee Institute in the American South were transposed to Nausori,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Access to Education, Colonialism
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
Patrick Valiquet – History of Education, 2023
This article examines documentation from a previously unpublished architectural survey of English comprehensive secondary school music classrooms, conducted between 1976 and 1978 by a team of Department of Education and Science architects led by David and Mary Medd on behalf of a Schools Council music curriculum research project directed by John…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Secondary Schools, Educational History
Bill Cope; Mary Kalantzis – History of Education, 2023
The differences between computer-mediated and in-person learning are of increasing interest to educators, both with the rise of fully online education offerings and the move to 'blended learning' when teachers use computer-mediated learning to supplement and extend classroom activities. This paper offers a narrative history of the world's first…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Electronic Learning, Learning Management Systems, Educational History
Begoña Torres; Raúl Velasco Morgado – History of Education, 2023
In the nineteenth century, a new method for teaching anatomy shifted the professor's position from the middle of the lecture amphitheatre to one side of the room. In this spot, the wall was used to display a variety of visual "flat technologies" such as blackboards, oil paintings, wallcharts and light projections, among other visual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science History, Anatomy, Science Education
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
Tocci, Charles; Ryan, Ann Marie – History of Education, 2022
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a novel United States federal education programme that enrolled nearly three million men during the 1930s and early 1940s. This public work relief programme provides a case study of the ways that masculine, eugenicist ideas concerning public education evolved from the Progressive Era through the Great…
Descriptors: Males, North Americans, Educational History, Federal Programs
Ku, Hsiao-Yuh – History of Education, 2022
Brian Simon (1915-2002), a Marxist historian and educationist in Britain, was a leading pioneer in the comprehensive education movement. Although Simon's great contribution to this movement has been recognised by historians, the development of Simon's ideas and his actions in this movement have hardly been examined in great depth by previous…
Descriptors: Educational History, Political Attitudes, Historians, Criticism
Venken, Machteld – History of Education, 2022
Establishing and implementing rules that would teach pupils to become citizens became a crucial technique for turning those spots on the map of Europe whose sovereignty had shifted after the First World War into lived social spaces. This article uses Arnold Van Gennep's notion that a shift in social status possesses a spatiality and temporality of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Educational Change, War, Social Status
Westberg, Johannes – History of Education, 2022
The nation-state remains fundamental to our understanding of nineteenth-century schooling, which is commonly referred to in terms of national school systems or national education systems. While nineteenth-century school systems were often national in scope and promoted with the purpose of creating nationally minded citizens, this article examines…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Policy
Lockard, Joe – History of Education, 2022
This paper explores the representation and non-representation of slavery in US school textbooks from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the US Civil War. It reviews the major readers, almost none of which mentioned slavery despite the anti-slavery sentiments of many textbook editors. The few readers that addressed slavery did so in…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Slavery, Educational History, Content Analysis