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Education during a Global Health Crisis
Alexa Rodríguez, University of Virginia Almost two years later and school systems across the world continue to be disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, this is not the first-time schools have faced the challenge of operating during a public health crisis such as...
On Interdisciplinarity
Karen Lillie, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Truly good research – the kind that offers new insights into long-standing ideas, that pushes us to see a little differently – can rarely be labelled as purely one thing or another. In synthesising...
Late-Victorian attitudes towards the teaching of myth-histories in schools
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
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
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...
Conserving the American Man: Gender, Eugenics, and Education in the Civilian Conservation Corps
‘Schools? Education? Nerts! I’ve had enough! Teachers and professors? Take ‘em away!’[1] That was the recruitment pitch to young American men to join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression. The CCC was a novel United States federal work...
Impressions and lessons from the research workshops of SWG ‘Observatory for the History of Education’
ISCHE 42 Online Conference 14–25 June 2021 Standing Working Groups (SWG) are a special feature of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE). Small, focused research groups, they bring together scholars from across the globe for two...
Including invasion: Challenging 200 years of national narratives in the Australian Curriculum
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...
The impact of Sir Thomas Muir (1844–1934) on education in the Cape Colony
This blog post was written by Peter Elliott. Peter Elliott is a great-grandson of Sir Thomas Muir. He grew up in South Africa, attended the University of Cambridge and pursued a legal career in England. In retirement, he has published three Southern African-related...
Call for Proposals: History of Education (US) Society 2021 Annual Meeting
The Program Committee for the 2021 Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society invites proposals on all topics related to the history of education. We invite proposals for individual papers, complete paper sessions, panel discussions, or workshops. Proposals...