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Wegner, Claas; Strehlke, Friederike; Weber, Phillip – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2014
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are subjects comprising knowledge whose schooling is essential for every country striving after long-term economic success. Despite the already existing shortage of skilled labour within the mathematic-technical-scientific professional field, men still dominate the respective subjects and…
Descriptors: Females, Males, STEM Education, Foreign Countries
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Rutz, Andreas – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
Girls' schools in the early modern era were largely run by nuns and can therefore be distinguished as Catholic institutions of learning. These schools flourished in the Catholic parts of Europe since the turn of the seventeenth century. Despite their focus on religious education, elementary skills such as reading, writing and sometimes arithmetic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Literacy Education, Nuns, Catholics
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Bender-Szymanski, Dorothea – Intercultural Education, 2012
In this article, we describe the multiple phases of a project that was constructed around the real case of a young Muslim student who wished to be exempted from coeducational physical education on religious grounds. When the school refused her initial request, she decided to take legal measures which ended up in the German Federal Administrative…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Public Schools
Albisetti, James C.; Goodman, Joyce; Rogers, Rebecca – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This long-awaited synthesis approaches the past three centuries with an eye to highlighting the importance of significant schools, as well as important women educators in the emergence of secondary education for girls. At the same time, each contributor pays careful attention to the specific political, cultural, and socio-economic factors that…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Females, Democracy, Educational History
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Lechner, Elmar – Pedagogica Historica, 1991
Explores the role of women in eighteenth-century Germany's University of Halle. Reports that the school admitted both male and female students. Explains that the university's central principle, the conquest of the world through personal effort, was viewed as well suited to women, who had not been tainted by academic tradition. (SG)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Females
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Baumert, Jurgen – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1992
Presents study results examining recruitment practice differences between coeducational and gender segregated secondary schools in Germany. Discusses the impact of organizational form on teacher judgments, achievement in specific subjects, school subject-related interests, and school commitment. Reports that under conditions of free school choice,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Coeducation, Foreign Countries, School Choice
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Blessing, Benita – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
In this article the author discusses that, at the end of World War II, German educational administrators in the Soviet occupied zone of their nation decided to implement coeducation; that is, the schooling of girls and boys in the same classroom. This policy represents a radical break with German educational traditions, as well as with the western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Action, Educational Change, Coeducation
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Ludwig, Peter H. – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 2003
Argues that the thesis of discrimination against girls in coeducation schools has been replaced by a belief that, during certain phases or in specific subjects, abandonment of coeducation would promote equal opportunities. Questions whether classic or recent surveys provide empirical evidence for this moderate skeptical attitude towards…
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Kuhn, Heidemarie – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1995
Asserts that, at no point in East German educational history, did girls' education play a role, because the concept of school and instruction was not differentiated according to gender. Describes the bibliographic search for gender-related issues and how the leading East German educational journal treated them. (CFR)
Descriptors: Coeducation, Educational History, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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Giesen, Heinz; And Others – Zeitschrift fur Padagogik, 1992
Presents study results of the impact of coeducational and gender segregated instruction on German students' vocational choice. Reports that students in coeducational settings tend to conform with gender typical roles in choice of majors, interests, grades, and self-assessment. Concludes that female students attending girls' schools more often go…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Coeducation, Course Selection (Students), Educational Research
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1896
This is the Report of the Commissioner of Education, part of the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1895. The Bureau of Education report is contained within volume five, which is in two parts. Part one contains: (1) The Commissioner of Education's Introduction; (2) Statistics of State Common-School…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Public Schools, Urban Schools, Secondary Schools
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1907
Beginning with the Commissioner of Education introduction, Chapter I of Volume 1 covers British and Irish education, including a detailed view of English and Welsh elementary education. French education is addressed in Chapter II, with historic context, contemporary issues, and data. Chapter III details the Prussian 1906 school law requiring…
Descriptors: Reports, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Educational Legislation
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1891
Volume I of the 1888-1889 "Report of the Commissioner of Education" is in the two parts and begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction which includes general statistics; grade of instruction; school property; education in the south; comparison of German, French, and American schools; course of study; the educational systems…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, School Statistics, Educational Facilities
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1907
After an introduction by the Commissioner of Education, chapters I and II of volume 1 cover reports from the Mosely Educational Commission to the United States. Chapter III addresses proceedings instituted to execute the Rhodes Scholarship Trust. Subsequent chapters cover French education, agriculture teaching in French and Belgian schools,…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Agricultural Education, Business Education, Higher Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1903
Volume 2 covers Puerto Rican education; Alaskan education; the 12th annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska (ED613561); city school statistics; information and statistics on universities, colleges, technological schools, professional schools, agricultural and mechanical colleges, normal schools, secondary schools, manual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Animal Husbandry, Urban Schools
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