Focuses on study analyses and historical aspects related to the development and establishment of the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia). Discusses the role of the Higher Education Financing and Policy Review Committee in reviewing Australia's higher education sector. (MER)

Provides an overview of papers and presentations given by educators who attended the 1999 European Educational Research Association Conference (Lahti, Finland). Seminar presentations focus on image-based or image-related research in education history. (MER)

Reflects on the process of writing a biographical account about the female educator activist, Mary Bridges Adams. States the writing method should transpire in an analytical, linear, sociological narrative approach. Concludes that the past has been told from a masculine gendered narrative, not giving due attention to representing women. (MER)

In Meiji Japan (1868?1912) and the German "Kaiserreich" (1871-1918), the educational system assisted the state in the definition of the notions of national identity. They developed, it is broadly claimed, within a similar vision of a state, which culminated in similar patterns of nationalism towards the end of the Second World War. In this article…

"The Force of Ideas" describes a little-known aspect of both educational history and Viennese psychoanalysis during the interwar years: the movement for psychoanalytic pedagogy. The author traces her father's own story, beginning with his application to the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society for training as a psychoanalytic pedagogue, as a…

This paper seeks to point out some of the limitations of conceiving of character in this way and to highlight some of the alternative contemporary readings of character. The later Victorians bequeathed to the Edwardians an account of the nature and importance of character that was much more complex and highly wrought than a mere shorthand for a…

Appreciation, respect and perhaps even friendship for Brian Simon are not immediately the best conditions for a critical and detached investigation of his legacy. So we would do best to take account of this subjective element from the outset, all the more so because Gary McCulloch and Ruth Watts, in a recent special issue of "History of…

Provides an introduction to the articles presented in this theme issue. Explains the focus surrounds the study of the relationship of educational issues from different geographical educational history. Compares similarities and contrasts differences. (KDR)

The article argues that the local authority attendance officers responsible for the enforcement of compulsory attendance changed their approach to truancy under the influence of child welfare legislation and changing views of the child in the first decade of the twentieth century. Some of the changes in their work emerged as a direct response to…

This paper forms part of a recent trend that aims to contribute to the writing of a more inclusive education history sensitive to the operation of gender. The author presents an analysis of educator activists in twentieth-century England that connects, rather than separates, the domains of education, labour history and politics. The paper also…

Focuses on the history, attributes of, and contributions to education of the former Risinghill (London, England) school in the 1950s and 1960s, and its former headmaster, Michael Duane. Discusses the school's innovative and controversial educational practices of that time period. (KDR)

Discusses principles and educational change practices that led to educational progressivism in the second half of the twentieth century. Highlights elements of change and action expounded by educators who presented papers at the 2000 History of Education Society Conference (Birmingham, Alabama). (MER)

Responds to the progressive education concepts analyses of Herbert Kliebard and Sol Cohen. Offers the methodology concept of propography, or collective biography, to explain interests perceived as a homogenous progressive movement in education. Demonstrates the promise of prosopography as a methodology to bring agendas of less well-known…

Examines the Newcastle Commission (England), recognizing it as "the best snapshot we have of the state of elementary education before 1870." Traces the appointment of the Commission, the in-fighting during its deliberations, the origins of its recommendations, its political links and Peelite debts, and its effective generation of payment…

Examines the effects of World War II on elementary schools in England by investigating elementary education in Birmingham, England. Finds that over the long term, the war time efforts enhanced the education of disadvantaged schoolchildren. Notes that educational quality declined in Birmingham causing school children of that period to become…