by Elena Rossi | Feb 11, 2022
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...
by Elena Rossi | Jan 28, 2022
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
by Katie Carpenter | Oct 1, 2021
‘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...
