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Tracing the Modernisation Project of Turkey in Textbook Images (1923-1945)
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Sena Cosgun Kandal – History of Education, 2024
When the Turkish Republic was founded, it inherited a Western-oriented modernisation project from its predecessor, the Ottoman Empire. The republican ruling class was determined to further this legacy, and education was used as a tool for the eventuation of this project. One of the essential elements of this tool was textbook images. This article…
Descriptors: Educational History, Social Change, Social Systems, Textbooks
Thematic Analysis of Music-Making in US Residential Schools: Navigating Colonial Archives and Honouring Indigenous Perspectives
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Melissa Parkhurst – History of Education, 2024
Extracurricular activities such as sports and music offer a means to glimpse the complexity of students' experiences in federally-run boarding schools for Native children in the United States. Studies of music in residential schools typically include a mix of quantitative and qualitative sources, including "unexpected archives" such as…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Music, Indigenous Knowledge, Extracurricular Activities
The Imperfect Child in Early Twentieth-Century Russia
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Byford, Andy – History of Education, 2017
The article discusses the role that conceptualisations of child "imperfection" played in the rise and fall of Russian "child study" between the 1900s and the 1930s. Drawing on Georges Canguilhem's ideas on "the normal" and "the pathological", the article analyses practices centred on diagnosing subnormality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Social Attitudes, Pathology