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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...
Call for Papers: Special feature for Institute of Education 120th Anniversary
Edited by Hugh Starkey and Li Wei For publication autumn/winter 2022/23 Expressions of interest accepted until: 31 October 2021 DEADLINE for draft papers: 28 February 2022 Background: UCL Institute of Education (IOE) is the direct descendant of the London Day Training...
Call for Papers
present New Perspectives on New Challenges A virtual event to be held on: Saturday 16th October 2021 The past eighteen months has presented a unique set of challenges for those engaged in post-graduate research. For many, the challenge of researching and studying...
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...