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Grosvenor, Ian; Pataki, Gyöngyvér – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
In "Radical Education and the Common School" (2011), Michael Field and Peter Moss argue for a radical alternative to the failed and dysfunctional contemporary discourse about education and the school with its focus on markets, competition, instrumentality, standardisation, and managerialism. They argue that it is necessary, if we are to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational History, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change
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Little, Judith Warren; Bartlett, Lora – Review of Research in Education, 2010
In this chapter, the authors examine developments in the teacher workforce and in the occupation of teaching across recent generations. They take their point of departure from the perspective of prevailing policy discourse on enduring problems of educational equity, asking not only how teaching has evolved in recent decades but more specifically…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Educational Opportunities, Teaching Methods
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Gardiner, Di – Education Research and Perspectives, 2004
This study analyses how "Education" as an area of study was constructed at The University of Western Australia [UWA] during the period 1916-85. While there is little commentary available regarding the construction of "Education" in a curriculum sense, what evidence there is suggests that there was hostility towards the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Schools of Education, Teacher Education
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Commission for International Adult Education, 2012
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Religion
Berkowitz, J. H. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The great war now ended has shown to every nation the priceless value of its citizens. The beginnings of the health supervision of schools and school children, made before the war, are now seen as movements of the greatest significance for national conservation. The growth of school health supervision in the United States in the past few years is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, School Health Services, School Buildings