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Robin Simmons – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2024
This paper focuses on independent training providers (ITPs) -- in other words, private companies -- as suppliers of vocational education and training in post-war England. Whilst acknowledging the central role of further education (FE) colleges in delivering vocational learning, it draws attention to a large, diverse sector of ITPs operating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Modern History, Historical Interpretation
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Chris Allen – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2025
Two recent reports suggest that Muslim students are experiencing increased levels of Islamophobia while studying at universities in the United Kingdom (UK). While so, the issue has attracted little scholarly investigation. Responding to this gap in the literature, this article sets out new and previously unpublished findings drawn from qualitative…
Descriptors: Islam, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Universities
Webb, Mary Alison – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The title for the project, "Eloquence in Talke and Vertue in Deedes," comes from educational theorist William Kempe's claim that the early modern humanist educational system was guaranteed to produce eloquence and virtue. It is, however, my argument that the educational failed in its promises. This project seeks to dissect the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Humanism, Educational Theories
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Heather Smith – Prism: Casting New Light on Learning, Theory & Practice, 2021
Racist nativism is a concept which helps us understand the relationship between racialisation and nativism. It is used here to examine cultural values perpetuated by media and political discourse as alien to British values in constructions of Britishness. This paper will consider with interest racist nativism revealed in the construction of Islam…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Racism, Local Issues
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Turner, Rachel K.; Hinojosa, Eliel, Jr. – Educational Considerations, 2020
In the early 1990s, Dr. O.L. Davis of the University of Texas at Austin sought evacuee teacher and student recollections in England during World War II. The overarching purpose for Davis was to gain an understanding of the effect on schooling and education, specifically as it relates to the curriculum for students. This article continues where he…
Descriptors: War, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Mitch, David – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
Historians of the rise of popular education have often emphasised the role of national governments as sources of funding. However, for the case of England work by W.K. Jordan among others with probate records suggests that by the English Civil War substantial philanthropic funding was available for education. The presence of this philanthropy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Finance, Private Financial Support
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Caruso, Marcelo – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2014
Not only in education, but also in other social practices, the history of "internationalisation" is correlative to the history of "nationalisation". In this broad sense, this article outlines four main constellations of the links between education and nationalisation/internationalisation dynamics. After a brief description of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Global Approach, International Education, Nationalism
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Cooper, Sheila McIsaac – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
This paper will address the role of early-modern (1550-1800) English servants in the training and education of the children residing in the households in which these servants worked. Some resident servants were employed primarily, if not solely, to educate the children of their masters and mistresses. These tutors, governesses and chaplains are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Modern History, Service Occupations
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Krehbiel, Lee E.; Meabon, Dave L. – American Educational History Journal, 2006
This article focuses on the origins, evolution, and social roles played by food service at colleges and universities. It emphasizes: (1) the gradual assumption of responsibility for housing and meals by universities during the medieval period; (2) the role of food service in the "collegiate way" philosophy so influential in British and…
Descriptors: Food Service, Role, Student Personnel Services, Colleges