by Jennifer Crowdy | Jun 6, 2025
By Cheung Wai Chung (Douglas) How to save a nation through education? In the 1910s, some Chinese scientists upheld shi ye jiao yu guan [values of industrial education] 實業教育觀, which began to gain its popularity since the late Qing period. By investigating the Ke Xue...
by Jennifer Crowdy | Jan 21, 2025
By Dr Sarah Odhner Samuel Wilderspin’s nineteenth-century early childhood pedagogy is widely recognised to be of global significance. His manual, On the Importance of Educating the Infant Children of the Poor, was the first work to set out innovative methods for...
by Jennifer Crowdy | Nov 29, 2024
By Ken Clayton One of the questions on which most historians of education seem to be agreed is that there was a widespread debate on the need for reform of education in early modern England. Lawson and Silver stated that the 1640s and 1650s saw education being...
by History of Education Society | Jan 5, 2015
By Pavel BilichenkoInvestigating the original historical pedagogical experience in the activity of the distinguished enthusiasts of the world education development in period of 19th – beginning of the 20thcenturies is of great scientific interest for us.My research...
by History of Education Society | Nov 11, 2014
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...
