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National antidote: industrial education, modern science and Chinese nationalism in the 1910s
By Cheung Wai Chung (Douglas) How to save a nation through education? In the 1910s, some Chinese scientists upheld shi ye jiao yu guan [values of industrial education] 實業教育觀, which began to gain its popularity since the late Qing period. By investigating the Ke Xue...
What is – The Ruths Watts Fellow?
Within our Executive Committee, the History of Education Society is supported by 3 individuals who have unique roles through the form of a paid Fellowship. These are the 'Peter Gosden Fellow', 'Richard Aldrich Fellow' and 'Ruth Watts Fellow'. However, what do these...
What is – The Peter Gosden Fellow?
Within our Executive Committee, the History of Education Society is supported by 3 individuals who have unique roles through the form of a paid Fellowship. These are the 'Peter Gosden Fellow', 'Richard Aldrich Fellow' and 'Ruth Watts Fellow'. But what do these roles...
What is – The Richard Aldrich Fellow?
Within our Executive Committee, the History of Education Society is supported by 3 individuals who have unique roles through the form of a paid Fellowship. These are the 'Peter Gosden Fellow', 'Richard Aldrich Fellow' and 'Ruth Watts Fellow'. However, what do these...
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,...