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Sherman Dorn Ed.; David A. Gamson Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2024
In this fascinating collection, some of the foremost historians of education--including Barbara Beatty, Larry Cuban, Linda Eisenmann, Yoon K. Pak, John L. Rury, and Jonathan Zimmerman--debunk commonly held myths about American schooling. Each short, readable chapter focuses on one myth, explaining what the "real" history is and how it…
Descriptors: Educational History, Misconceptions, Schools, Educational Change
Sara Torres-Vega Ed.; Wendy Woon Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
This comprehensive volume highlights and centers untold histories of education at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from 1937 to 2020, using the critical voices of artists, scholars, designers, and educators. Exploring these histories as transformative and paradigm-shifting in museum education, it elevates MoMA educators as vocal advocates for…
Descriptors: Museums, Art Education, Educational History, Administrators
Collier, Caleb – Routledge Research in Education, 2023
This book analyzes the deep historical and theoretical roots of self-directed learning models in order to put forward a new conceptual understanding of self-directed learning. It utilizes philosophical methods to present arguments, both historical and contemporary, in favor of shifting education toward self-directed models and away from a view of…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Educational History, Student Role, Cultural Differences
Lomotey, Kofi, Ed.; Smith, William A., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2023
A crisis of immense magnitude persists in higher education in the United States. For this third edition of "The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education," Kofi Lomotey and William A. Smith have gathered outstanding scholars in the field to address this dilemma on several levels. In thirteen original essays, contributors establish a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racism, Equal Education, Racial Differences
Breaden, Jeremy; Goodman, Roger – Oxford University Press, 2023
Globally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan, which has the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of overall expenditure, almost 80% of all university students attend private institutions. According to some estimates up to 40% of these institutions are family businesses in the…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational History
Muir, James R. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2022
Isocrates is one of the most remarkable and influential figures in the history of human thought. The influence of his ideas in the history of historical writing, rhetoric, the visual arts, music, religion and theology, political science, philosophy and, above all, educational philosophy and practice in Europe, Australia, North America, North…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Justice, Political Issues
Diana Gonçalves Vidal Ed.; Vivian Batista da Silva Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
This collection encompasses a period that spans two centuries, in which Brazil serves as a point of departure and of arrival for the analyses of circuits that, intertwined within the national borders, stimulate the reflection about international transits, hybridizations, and appropriations in a process of transnational circulation of subjects and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational History, Historiography, Educational Development
David Kennedy – SUNY Press, 2024
"Childhood, Philosophy, and Dialogical Education" explores the history and prospects of democratic, dialogical education, and its promise as an engine of social and cultural evolution, especially in the context of the cultural and social site dedicated to the adult-child encounter: the school. Drawing on three historical narratives--of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Dialogs (Language), Teacher Student Relationship, Educational History
Stein, Sharon – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
Over the past several decades, higher education in the United States has been shaped by marketization and privatization. Efforts to critique these developments often rely on a contrast between a bleak present and a romanticized past. In "Unsettling the University," Sharon Stein offers a different entry point--one informed by decolonial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Decolonization, Colonialism, Educational History
Frederick M. Hess; Michael Q. McShane – Teachers College Press, 2024
In "Getting Education Right," Rick Hess and Mike McShane argue that America has too long suffered from the absence of a robust, coherent, and principled conservative vision for educational improvement. The book both diagnoses a problem and offers a solution. The problem? The right has too narrowly focused on school choice, campus speech,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Educational Improvement
Ann-Kathrin Hoffmann Ed.; Marc Fabian Buck Ed. – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2024
The second of two volumes dedicated to this little-explored topic continues to gather international perspectives to critically assess how Waldorf education has been perceived and discussed in both public and academic arenas. Both books thereby challenge the historic concept of Waldorf education as an international movement championing…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reputation, Progressive Education, Educational Trends
Mitchel B. Wallerstein – Teachers College Press, 2024
Discover how one public higher education institution was able to succeed despite the many obstacles and challenges that it faced. This is the story of how and why Baruch College of The City University of New York became a "positive outlier," overcoming serious financial constraints, physical space limitations, and other difficulties to…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Success, Urban Schools, Educational Finance
Wilson, John Silvanus, Jr. – Harvard Education Press, 2023
In "Hope and Healing," former Morehouse College president John Silvanus Wilson, Jr. looks to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to examine what it takes not only to survive as a relevant institution of higher education, but to thrive. Wilson draws on pivotal moments in the timelines of HBCUs and the work of past…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Tidman, Gemma – Oxford University Press, 2023
The "emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France" changes our understanding of when, how and why modern ideas of literature emerged in France. Using a unique blend of literary and digital methods, it argues that it was in the mid eighteenth century, rather than the nineteenth (as many have claimed), that the word littrature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Colleges, French
Bialystok, Lauren; Andersen, Lisa M. F. – University of Chicago Press, 2022
In the United States, sex education is more than just an uncomfortable rite of passage: it's a political hobby horse that is increasingly out of touch with young people's needs. In "Touchy Subject," philosopher Lauren Bialystok and historian Lisa M. F. Andersen unpack debates over sex education, explaining why it's worth fighting for,…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Politics of Education, Educational History, Activism