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By Suzanne Manning ~ @slmanning1When my first child was about 10 months old, I met a woman in a nearby park. She asked me what early childhood services I would be taking my daughter to; at that stage, I had no idea. So she launched into her spiel...
The history of Scottish education: a window to the rural world
by Helen YoungI’m currently undertaking ESRC doctoral research into the history of the small rural schools of Scotland. Focusing on the period 1872-2000, I’m exploring a number of themes (including gender, citizenship and the nature of rurality) with an...
International Standing Conference on the History of Education 2015 (ISCHE 2015): ‘Culture and Education’ Istanbul University, Turkey, 24th – 27th June 2015
By Meryem Karabekmez (student representative of ISCHE 2015)ISCHE 37 will be held in Istanbul in 2015 on the theme of ‘Culture and Education’. The purpose of this conference is to examine the relations between education and culture in the historical process.What is the...
Teachers’ Lives, Teachers’ Voices, and Educational Development in Central Asia
By Peter CunninghamTeachers’ life histories make a significant contribution to educational development in a Central Asian centre of key economic growth. Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education has recently published a project from within their...
What evidence do historians of education need to reconstruct the past?
by Heather Ellis and Stephen ParkerThe History of Education Society was recently invited to take part in an open consultation process organised by National Archives regarding its operational selection policy (OSP) concerning the records of the Department for Education...
November is #histedmonth
#histedmonth uses social media to encourage collaboration and networking between individuals and groups interested in the history of education. It seeks to promote the history of education by engaging the wider public. The theme of #histedmonth this year is:...
Obituary: Professor Richard Aldrich (1937 – 2014)
Professor Richard Aldrich, Emeritus Professor of the History of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, who has sadly passed away on 20 September 2014, was one of the most distinguished historians of education of his generation, and one of the...
Summer Universities, within the international relationships of the Hungarian Royal Erzsébet University between 1920-1946
by Adrienn...