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Late-Victorian attitudes towards the teaching of myth-histories in schools

by History of Education Society | Dec 17, 2021

Joe Smith, University of Stirling Myth-histories have unrivalled discursive power in calling up the imagined community of the nation. These stories – whether Homeric epics, Arthurian chivalry, or Wagnerian operas – supposedly distil the character of the nation in...

Teaching Anti-Racism on the New York Frontier: Beriah Green’s Oneida Institute

by History of Education Society | Oct 26, 2021

When the fervent abolitionist Beriah Green took the reins as president of the Oneida Institute in Whitestown, New York, in 1833, he made it clear that his vision was to turn it into a school that would fight not just slavery in America, but racism itself. ...

Anti-Popery and the Board School Elections in Late Victorian England

by History of Education Society | Oct 1, 2021

Aidan Cottrell-Boyce is a research fellow at St Marys University. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2018. He is the author of Israelism in Modern Britain (2020) and Jewish Christians in Puritan England (2021). In the middle of the nineteenth...

Including invasion: Challenging 200 years of national narratives in the Australian Curriculum

by History of Education Society | Aug 4, 2021

Danielle Hradsky is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia, living and working on the unceded lands of the Bunurong and Woiwurrung peoples of the Kulin Nations. She is exploring professional learning which engages teachers with the complexities of teaching...

Book Reviews Editor, History of Education

by History of Education Society | Oct 7, 2020

The Editorial Board of History of Education is seeking expressions of interest in the role of Book Reviews Editor.  History of Education is a leading international journal which is listed in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citations Index. The...
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