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Vocational Schools at the 1900 Universal Exhibition
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...
Season 2 Episode 3: Technology & The Historian with Adam Crymble
On today’s episode, we speak with Adam Crymble about his new book, Technology and the Historian, which looks at the history and development of digital history as a discipline in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. Adam’s book focuses on the (longer than...
Ian and Anne Serraillier, and The New Windmill Series
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...
Season 2 Episode 2: Gender & Sexuality in American Public Schools with Rachel Rosenberg
As part of our commitment to sharing the work of graduate students and early-career researchers, one episode a month of Passing Notes will highlight the work of one of these scholars working in the history of education. Today’s episode is a conversation with...
Season 2 Episode 1: Distance Education in the Eighteenth Century with Rachel Bynoth
For our first episode of the season, we talk with Rachel Bynoth about distance education in the late-eighteenth century and how using the dual lens of gender and emotions can help us better understand educational processes. We focus on Rachel's recent article in...
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...
Season 2: Passing Notes Trailer
The History of Education Society is excited to announce the second season of their podcast. Titled Passing Notes, this season looks at how the field connects with other disciplines. Drawing on interviews with both historians of education and scholars from a wide range...
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...