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Åkerlund, Andreas – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2014
Programmes of international educational exchange are not only carried out for educational purposes, but form an important part of modern-day public diplomacy. Through exchange programmes education and research are linked with foreign policy interests, which then in turn should affect the international contacts of universities and research…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Foreign Policy, Scholarship, Public Policy
Kiprianos, Pandelis – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
From 1870 until the outbreak of the Second World War there were various attempts at educational reform in Greece, one of the most significant being the intention to establish a national technical-vocational education. The aim of this study is to examine why such a reform was deemed necessary and yet failed to be implemented. The first part…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Educational History
Urban, Wayne J. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
This essay critically examines the commitment of James Bryant Conant to equality of opportunity as a guide for educational practice in his own era and in contemporary society. Noted chemist, president of Harvard University from the 1930s through the early 1950s, and noted analyst of the American high school from the time of publication of his…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academically Gifted, Citizenship Education, Educational Practices
Horne, Julia; Sherington, Geoffrey – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
This article introduces the notion of the "educational franchise" of Australia's public universities established in the mid-nineteenth century. In his recently published study of the public university and social access in the United States, John Aubrey Douglass suggests that from the mid-nineteenth century a social contract was formed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Class, Social Stratification, Gender Issues
Karpinski, Carol F. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
When H. Councill Trenholm wrote that "we have a long way to go", he fully understood the barriers that African-Americans faced in securing educational equity in the twentieth century, particularly in the segregated South. He also was keenly aware of the importance of education to community development, human development, and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Higher Education, Equal Education, Teacher Associations
Kramer, Hans Martin – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
Education reforms during the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) have traditionally been perceived as having been strongly shaped by U.S. American influence. The occupation bureaucracy, as the dominant element of a triangle of power together with the Ministry of Education and the Japanese Education Reform Committee, has been seen as the main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Administration, Educational Change