Recounts efforts made between 1801 and 1806 by French physician Itard to educate Victor, a boy found living in the wild in Aveyron. Explains how Itard's work with Victor, which met with limited success, led to the establishment of a school for educating clinical idiots. Describes procedures developed by Itard that are basic to the current…

The social ideology that gave rise to the Reading University Extension College in 1892 eroded as the college became more conventional and lost touch with the working class people it was designed to reach. (SK)

This history of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, established in 1917, reviews controversies over its constitutionality and control of education; criticism of its director, Charles Prosser; its contributions to vocational education; and reasons it was abolished in 1946. (SK)

Paul H. Hanus, founder of the Harvard Division of Education and chair of the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial Education (1906-09), believed that vocational education was the chief source of personal usefulness and catalyst for all academic achievement. He emphasized that vocational education can help students apply knowledge to solving…

From the 1880s to 1909, Emily Prudden started dozens of schools for African-American and white students in Appalachian North Carolina then turned them over to Protestant mission societies. Although segregated, African-American and white mission schools had similar curricula, housing, work and religious requirements, and qualified staff. (SV)

Describes how basal readers manufacture reading failures among students from less-privileged economic and social backgrounds. Reviews the history of reading instruction in the United States. Calls for educators to speak out against reading practices that protect the privilege of the upper and upper-middle classes by encoding their values and…

Describes the strike teachers in Saint Paul (Minnesota) carried out in 1946 to protest poor working conditions and low salaries. These teachers stayed on the picket line for more than five weeks until they had won better school financing and higher salaries and affirmed the role of collective bargaining for teachers. (SLD)

Details and assesses the life and education career of Susanna Rowson, particularly her involvement with geography education in the early United States. Discusses her childhood, career in the arts and on the stage, novel writing, educational career, geography textbooks, and relations with other early U.S. geographers. (DSK)

Investigates how the national problem of Cyprus, and its development, affected educational policy and consequently the secondary-school curriculum. Argues that curriculum choices were largely determined by the political situation in Cyprus, and shows that the philosophy of secondary education was shaped under pressure from monolithic cultural…

Recounts the history of the Ku Klux Klan Honorary Junior Society at the University of Wisconsin from 1919 to 1926. Although not tied to the national Ku Klux Klan, this honorary group became a powerful intrafraternity society that served as a barometer of the cultural and ideological climate of the university. (SLD)

Considers some foundational, historical issues that led to the formation of a technical-communication pedagogy in the first place. Evaluates shifts in an engineering curriculum from roughly 1850 to 1960 that made possible the development of a technical-communication curriculum. (SC)

Currently advocated agriculture teaching in the elementary classroom has historical precedents. Elementary agriculture curriculum in the early 20th century often followed Pestalozzi's recommendations and used hands-on activities such as nature study. By 1951, 21 states required agricultural education in rural elementary schools. (SK)

Evaluates Samuel Chandler Earle's 1911 presentation to the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. Demonstrates Earle's role in the shift of technical writing courses that combined both the goals of an engineering curriculum with the real-world needs of the graduated engineer. Finds that Earle's "Tufts Experiment" provided…

Jonathan Baldwin Turner was instrumental in the creation of the concept of land-grant universities. Despite a push for normal schools as the site of agricultural teacher training, land-grant institutions become the main source of teacher preparation, creating closer ties with agriculture than with pedagogy. (SK)

This book uses a biographical pattern to trace the history of physics teaching. Whenever possible the story of an influential person or institution is used to tell the story of that period. The book begins with the contributions of the Greeks, the Romans, and the Arabs to physics and its teaching. Chapters include: (1) "The First Beginnings of…