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Was Samuel Wilderspin’s infant pedagogy grounded in theory?
By Dr Sarah Odhner Samuel Wilderspin’s nineteenth-century early childhood pedagogy is widely recognised to be of global significance. His manual, On the Importance of Educating the Infant Children of the Poor, was the first work to set out innovative methods for...
Was there really a great educational debate in early modern England?
By Ken Clayton One of the questions on which most historians of education seem to be agreed is that there was a widespread debate on the need for reform of education in early modern England. Lawson and Silver stated that the 1640s and 1650s saw education being...
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Joyce Goodman
It is with great sadness that the History of Education Society received notice of Joyce Goodman’s death in January 2025. Joyce was well-known and respected by so many members of the Society. She served in a number of important leadership, editorial and administrative...