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Technical education in Bolivia 1825-1900: ideas, achievements and obstacles to development
By Pablo Alonso, Pedro Pablo Ortúñez and José L. Tangara The role that education has played in the economic growth process of countries is a very suggestive research topic that began to be investigated decades ago. The theory of human capital, which was established as...
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...
Lord Londonderry and Sectarian Schooling in Northern Ireland
I am happy to state that our History of Education Blog is once again active! At the HES Blog we invite individuals, whether student, early career researcher or experienced historian, to demonstrate their research into the rich tapestry of educational history and its...
‘Not simply contraception’: Family Planning Support in Birmingham and Winchester 1945-1955
Susan Birch, University of Winchester Family Planning My PhD thesis examines the Family Planning Association, a national organisation that provided family planning support, after the Second World War. I chose to study this period because traditionally the 1940s and...
The First 365 Days as President…
Jonathan Doney, University of Exeter It is now a year, almost to the day, since I took up the reins as President of the History of Education Society from Stephen Parker, and a year since I promised to write a blog as incoming president (Sorry Elena!!) Jonathan Doney,...
History of Education Doctoral Summer School 2023: A Diary Account
Elena Rossi, Magdalen College, Oxford Taking advantaged of my role as the Peter Gosden Fellow here at the History of Education Society UK, I used the society's social media platform to post live updates about my experience at the History of Education Doctoral Summer...
‘Much more than just a result’ using Life History Research to Understand the Influence of the 11+ on Schoolgirls: 1955-1965
Amanda Lavelle, University of Essex Identifying identity Historically speaking, interest in personal identity was focused on the elite within society, people of significance, who appeared to live very different lives from “ordinary people”. Following the ‘cultural...
The Refinement of Children: Educating on Tea Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Ailsa Maxwell, Keble College, Oxford The British are well known for their love of tea. In fact, over 100,000,000 cups are drunk in the United Kingdom every single day of the year. Children have always been a part of this culture. For example, it was estimated that 55%...
Physical Literacy – a recent concept?
Malcolm Tozer Physical literacy, as applied to the physical education of children and the lifelong well-being of adults, has many advocates. The International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA) publishes a definition on its website and claims that the concept owes...