by Elena Rossi | Oct 22, 2022
Joel Barnes, University of Queensland In a recent article for History of Education I have traced the Australian reception of the ‘Two Cultures’ controversy between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis in the early 1960s, and situated the local debate in shifting...
by Elena Rossi | Jun 17, 2022
Elena Rossi, Magdalen College, Oxford Ever fallen asleep in a boring class? Had a lecturer that always let their classes overrun? What if you could fine your lecturers for this audacious behaviour? It may sound crazy, but this was the reality for teachers in the early...
by Elena Rossi | May 20, 2022
Jamie Trezise, University of Sussex When considering the educational reforms of the 20th century, it will most likely be the 1944 Education Act, pioneered by Rab Butler, that comes to mind, which introduced secondary education for all.[1] Or perhaps it might be the...
by Elena Rossi | May 13, 2022
Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman, Witten/Herdecke University How did a musician and music historian like me become interested in the debates on classical education dating back more than a century? Like many other Russian humanities scholars, I realized only in my twenties...
by Elena Rossi | Mar 21, 2022
Miranda Sachs, Texas State University If a visitor to the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris had wandered into the pavilion sponsored by the city of Paris, she would have encountered a display of handcrafted objects produced by students at the city’s vocational...
by Elena Rossi | Mar 2, 2022
Liz West, University of Reading The New Windmill Series is part of the Heinemann Educational Books Archive at the University of Reading Special Collections. The archive, which covers the period from 1949-81, reveals an interesting interplay between publisher, teacher...
