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The Use of Foreign Examples to Support Educational Policy Decisions: The Chinese Education Mission to Europe in 1932
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Li, Kaiyi – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2021
In 1932, with the help of the League of Nations, the Chinese government sent an educational mission consisting of five scholars to Europe, in order to investigate education in different countries as reference points for ongoing Chinese educational reform. This article argues that educators in the mission used foreign examples to support their…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Change
Rural Space as a Natural Space: Topoi on the Educational Qualities of Rural Space in the Debate on Rural School Reform in Austria, 1920-1960
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Göttlicher, Wilfried – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
This article examines the ambiguous perception of rural space as a natural space in the debates on rural school reform in Austria from the 1920s up to the 1960s. Throughout the period investigated, the quality of rural space always was an important topic in these debates. In the pedagogic discourse, rural space was perceived as more natural or…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Hygiene, Educational History, Foreign Countries