States that the special place that the Mickey Mouse Theater and its leader, Betty Lyman, occupy in the history of the Federal Theater project can best be understood in the economic and political context of the Depression. Concludes that there is little evidence to suggest Lyman's group contributed to the growth of children's theater in Indiana.…

Discusses classical principles of style and composition as set forth by 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century rhetoric and composition authors. Shows how George Burton Hotchkiss in 1916, in the first important college business communication textbook, advocated business communication principles combining the most useful parts of modern rhetoric. (SR)

U.S. and European prison reformers influenced correctional education in Ontario in several areas: support for the common school movement, administrative practices, religious instruction, literacy training, and vocational programs. (SK)

The Association for Childhood Education International is an organization of professional educators, parents, and other adults interested in promoting good educational practices for children from infancy to early adolescence. ACEI maintains an archival deposit that includes children's books, personal papers, photographs, artifacts, and memorabilia…

The term "adult education" was used in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Melvil Dewey developed a typology of adult education, and Henry Leipziger promoted New York City's Free Lectures program as an institute of liberal adult education. Leipziger's advocacy was largely responsible for the diffusion of the new term in its…

Nursing history since 1853 is presented to identify issues in continuing nursing education, such as the influence of feminism and professionalism, changing constituencies, and philosophies in health care. (SK)

At the end of the 19th century, training was inadequate to meet 20th century demands in the United States. Visionary leaders moved to place vocational education in public schools. Lobbying by the American Federation of Labor and National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education resulted in federal enabling legislation for vocational…

A review of the past, the present, and the future offers an enlightening view of literacy in America. A 1967 issue of the "Illinois Journal of Education" has articles on phonics, linguistics, spelling, modalities of learning, disadvantaged children, vision screening and vision training, readiness, Montessori, partnerships between…

The major schools of journalism in the United States established themselves during the first 25 years of the 20th century. These schools formed an important part of the broader professionalizing project within journalism. Over the next 30 years, this elite group of schools attempted to make a degree from a professional school of journalism the…

An extensive survey was made of personal papers, textbooks, periodicals, and other printed material from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth, when the kindergarten movement rose and declined, to answer several questions concerning American Froebelians' cognizance of the influence of Comenius on Friedrich…

In the history of the scientific approach to educational issues in Sweden, educational research has been viewed as a scientific activity either because it is based in scientific institutions, because it uses scientific procedures, or because it is seen as a process of mapping reality. Initially, the creation of a specific discipline of education…

This is the 12th volume of a bound periodical, "American Journal of Education." This journal was established to enter into a range of education-related discussion and investigation. The focus of this issue is on military systems and military education in France and Prussia. [This volume was published by Henry Barnard. It represents n3 of…

Presents a brief biography of Martin Luther, focusing on his work as a reformer of education. Discusses what is known of his childhood, his life in an Augustinian monastery, his posting of the 95 theses against the sale of indulgences and other abuses of the Catholic Church, and his call for universal compulsory schooling. (CT)

Discusses the content and arrangement of the archives of England's National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) and summarizes four sub-groups: (1) papers relating to the establishment of the Society of Art Masters 1887-1937; (2) trust deeds, official addresses, publishing and printing, and insurance 1913-1938; (3) minutes of meetings…

Discusses the post-Civil War movement for democratic and social reform in U.S. colleges, particularly those in Pennsylvania. Focuses on the efforts of James P. Wickersham to increase state control of universities and high schools in order to develop a centralized educational bureaucracy. Concludes that Wickersham's ideas provided a foundation for…