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Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city
Power-assisted learning? Exhibiting, interpreting and teaching on technology in the twentieth-century industrial city An AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with the University of Manchester and the Museum of Science and Industry. We invite applications for a...
A Hungarian University Health Protection System in the Reflection of Treaty of Versailles (1924-1947)
A Hungarian University Health Protection System in the Reflection of Treaty of Versailles (1924-1947) [1] by Adrienn Sztana-Kovacs In our blog post we would like to point out why it was so important to organize a proper health-care system at the Royal Hungarian...
Call for Papers: History of Education & Children’s Literature
The international journal History of Education & Children’s Literature has issued a call for papers on school memories and public celebrations of education in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The special issue aims to focus on the multifaceted...
Educating Workhouse Children
Educating Workhouse Children by Dr Lesley Hulonce In 1877 schools inspector, J. L. Clutterbuck, painted this rather weary and monotonous picture of workhouse education: The annals of workhouse schools, as a rule, are uneventful. Teachers come and go, and boards of...
Call for Papers: ‘Revisiting the local dimension in historical-educational research’
The editors of Rivista di Storia dell’Educazione (RSE) have announced a call for papers for a special issue, ‘Revisiting the local dimension in historical-educational research’. RSE is the journal of the Centro Italiano per la Ricerca Storico- Educativa (CIRSE), the...
‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ HES 2016
Maria is a doctoral student at UCL Institute of Education under the supervision of Professor Gary McCulloch. Prior to commencing my research she worked in London comprehensive schools for thirty years. ‘Sight, Sound and Text in the History of Education’ was the theme...
New online community
A new online community space has recently been created for the History of Education Society (HES) through which you are able to contact other HES members, share files and discuss topics of interest to you. Click on the link below, 'sign up', log into your email...
Special Monothematic Issue: Historical reflection of education and its significance in (not only) teacher education
This monothematic volume of Pedagogika focuses primarily on the following areas: In what way was the “normative canon” of the ideas and personalities of History of Education constructed since this discipline had been established until the “disintegration” of this...