The value of an historical context for social studies is that social studies educators can see themselves as heirs to the past and ancestors of the future; as a discipline whose teaching and thinking and doing will be important gifts to the twenty-first century. (PN)

How the Greeks taught reading is not only historically interesting but also relevant to educational concerns today. (JT)

The author recalls his undergraduate years at the City College of New York in the late 1930s. (SJL)

The gamut and solmization, two theoretical concepts devised by the ancient Greeks and developed as pedagogical aids by subsequent theoreticians, were used extensively in the music textbooks of seventeenth-century Britain and eighteenth-century America. This study investigated these concepts in the texts of several characteristic English and…

The article is an overview of the events and ideas shaping the direction and nature of educational research as reflected by articles in the "Alberta Journal of Educational Research" from 1955 to 1979. (Author/SB)

The development of health education in the schools from 1600 to 1980 is traced. (JD)

Looks at some of the historical reasons for spelling irregularity and suggests that such information can serve as both background material for teachers and a source of motivation for students trying to learn to spell. (DD)

The life and philosophy of William James is discussed. (MM)

Presents a history of the AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology) archives, including the early archives established at the University of Iowa; the transfer to the National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) at the University of Maryland, College Park; and the equipment archives at Utah State University. (LRW)

Depicts adult education in Britain 30 years ago through description of the Kesgrave Evening Institute from 1965-69. Notes differences then and now in culture and value systems and similarities such as ongoing discussion of the adequacy of provision and differentiation between recreational and nonrecreational classes. (SK)

Reviews the history of the "Australian Journal of Adult Education," predecessor of "Australian Journal of Adult and Community Education," since its founding in 1961, including editors, format, components, contributors, and topics. Highlights its contribution to the legitimization of adult education as a discipline in Australia. (SK)

Discusses the development of research in nursing education from Florence Nightingale as statistician to the effects of doctor-nurse relations to the acceleration produced by various wars to the special nurses who make research a natural process for the profession. (Author/JOW)

The author reviews the history of the Australian Association of Adult Education (AAAE) since 1970. Funding and the role of the association are discussed, as well as significant changes in the field. The major activity of this period, the Audit Conference of 1978, is a point of focus. (CH)

Presents the origins of the "Journal for Research in Mathematics Education" focusing on mathematics education in the '50s and '60s; the establishment of the Research Advisory Committee of the NCTM; the publication of Research in Mathematics Education; and the initial structure, policy, and procedures for the new journal. (54 references)…

Discusses the 1916 Committee on Social Studies report. Describes the preparation of the report, who was involved and some of the social welfare and efficiency ideas of its authors. Observes that the report culminated in the introduction of the social studies into the U.S. secondary school curriculum. (SG)