Girls and boys education grew rapidly in New Zealand in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but discrimination against women limited access to education, the subjects taught, the depth in which they were taught, and women teacher's salaries. (IS)

Vocational education, as a share of secondary education, has declined in almost every educational system since 1950. The history of vocational education and the relationship of its decline to the desires of countries to produce a more standard level of education in line with egalitarian principles are discussed. (Author/IS)

This book interprets the framework of political ideas and beliefs that structure individual and collective thinking about educational policies and give them meaning. The analysis begins with the state of education in the mid-19th century and brings up to date the prospective reforms of the early 1990s. The study argues that, from its foundation,…

Early psychological studies of "genius" are examined, and reasons why European studies of eminent people never developed into true academic quality rankings are considered. In Europe, and especially England, France, and Germany, the ecological origins of eminent men and women were assessed: where they grew up, where they attended school,…

A Chilean case study of higher education under an authoritarian regime is presented. The study restricts itself to the most prevalent sub-type of the authoritarian regime which is "bureaucratic-authoritarianism" (BA). The BA designation refers to regimes which exert considerable repressive control over societies that have undergone…

Growing school systems in Montreal and Toronto (Canada) between 1861 and 1881 offered radically different opportunities to men and women. Educational administrators developed bureaucratic modes of organization chiefly with male aspirations for power and social mobility in mind. Women were hired to fill the bottom ranks or were ignored altogether.…

As a regular part of its duties, the Office of Education collects and gives out information about education in other countries. In that service, this list of references on foreign and comparative education is to be used as an aid in responding to the many requests which come to it for sources of data about education abroad, its history,…

A survey of textbooks used in French elementary schools during the Third Republic illustrates that period's attitudes toward female roles, social class, and religious differences. A sample of 126 public school books and 43 Catholic textbooks reveals that young students were presented the ideal of a woman content to remain inside an orderly…

Since the Industrial Revolution, a separation has occurred between art education, taught in the academies of Europe, and applied art education, taught in common schools. The academies based their teaching on limitation; the common schools based theirs on geometric drawing. Ideological and social factors are examined to explain this occurrence.…

The historical relationship between social work education in Latin America and the United States is analyzed. New social work strategies have produced innovative approaches to curriculum development and content, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the social worker's role. Translating these approaches to the American situation is discussed.…

Presents a case study of a village in highland South America to show how different segments of a society view literacy education. Topics discussed include collapse of traditional society as a result of education, values, changing economic and social conditions, the school role in creating an active citizenry, and school drop-out rates. (Author/DB)

The level and character of school investment affected the national economic output in agriculture and industry in Mexico during two periods, 1880-1910 and 1920-1925. Prior to the 1910 revolution, the Mexican government encouraged urban-centered industrial development, and schools were mostly locally- controlled, urban institutions. In…

Educational research in Finland in the year 1978-79 focused on the role that research played in Finnish education, the organization of Finnish educational research, and trends and new measures at the end of the 1970s. (RM)

The purpose of this bulletin is to present a selected working bibliography of practical usefulness to students and others interested in the education of native and minority groups. The field is a relatively new one in American education, and so far as information is available, this is the first effort to formulate a bibliography concerned with it.…

The purpose of this bulletin is to present to collegiate registrars, committees of admission, and State departments of public instruction such data about the institutions of higher education in Norway as will enable those officials and offices to form fairly accurate judgments of how higher training in Norway compares with that in the United…