This is the first volume of a bound periodical. The American Journal of Education was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes No. 1, August 1855 to No. 4, May 1856. An index is included. [The volume is published by F. C. Brownell.]

This collection of essays presents the history of art education from a variety of perspectives. Traditional and revisionist issues are seen from broad overviews and through specific concerns. Textual analysis, cultural transmission, and prominent philosophies are discussed. Thirteen essays include: (1) "A History of Art Education…

The study of early literature related to school psychology provides a fruitful source for understanding contemporary professional events and issues. It also reveals historical information in conflict with previously published accounts of the early history of school psychology. (Author)

Presents a brief history of the development of the centennial exhibit developed by James P. Wickersham for the Pennsylvania Department of Common Schools. (JDH)

This textbook is a natural history reader focusing on animals. This edition was revised and corrected by a Philadelphia teacher and includes an appendix of the Linnaean system of classification (taxonomy). It also includes sample questions teachers can use to examine students.

The author presents an account of the first federal Department of Education which existed briefly in the last century. He discusses its design, its development, and how it fared economically and politically. (CT).

A brief historical overview of the field of social studies is presented. (PN)

Overviews 15 years of accomplishments by Project Head Start. (DB)

Divides collegiate theater instruction into four phases: between 1900 and 1925, between 1925 and 1945, from 1945 through the mid-70s, and from the mid-70s until today. Reviews research about each era. (PA)

Through an examination of Carnegie Corporation archives and printed materials, the author examines reasons for the Carnegie Corporation's recommendation for the formation of the American Association for Adult Education in 1926. She also analyzes the preliminary stages of the founding process. (Author/CH)

This article looks at two modern institutions designed to discipline and control urban bodies--the school and the asylum--and the records they produced and the young people whose moral and cognitive capacities they tended. Both institutions are the sites of past childhood stories, yet the lives experienced in them are essentially anonymous. The…

This article highlights a violent incident in the history of British student protests and outlines the judicial process that resulted. A wider consideration of student protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s, both in the UK and overseas is offered, together with some consideration of the significance of this particular case. At the time of the…

This is the third volume of the bound periodical, "American Journal of Education"--established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. This volume includes No. 8, March 1857 to No. 9, June 1857. Articles in this volume cover topics such as: reformatory education; college government; mental science as a…

This is the biography of a school: Abbot Academy of Andover, Massachusetts. One of the first educational institutions in New England to be founded for girls and women alone, Abbot had by far the longest corporate life of any: it opened its doors to seventy students on May 6, 1829 and endured until those same doors and all the material goods inside…

Discusses the founding and growth of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies. Recounts various events from the council's history and provides a list of its presidents from 1938 to 1987. (GEA)