Focuses on an early twentieth century journal called "Oversea Education," designed to increase communication among British colonies, particularly for education, based on William Ormsby Gore's travels among the colonies. Describes Frank Ward's editorial work that championed the rights of colonial subjects to have better educational…

This paper has several concerns. It is about both the stories we tell and the images we place with those stories; it is also about historical practice and the power of the image to generate new research approaches. The paper is organized into three sections: the "eye of history" and historians and the visual archive; histories of black…

In earlier "humanitarian" accounts, Britain's voluntary blind institutions exemplified successful nineteenth-century philanthropy and later became effective partners of the state. From the 1970s, Victorian charity came increasingly under criticism and subsequent studies on disability condemn the exclusion and utilitarian training of a…

Explores the challenge presented by the exercise of memory, through oral history, as an historical method. Notes the use of historical data generated by memory projects. Concludes that memory recollection, as a historical medium, can be a resource for bearing witness to history's power to shape lives as individuals experience it. (KDR)

Focuses on two examples of how the English education system acquired characteristics and practices from Scotland and other sources. States that since Scottish and English backgrounds were similar, the predominant progress of Scotland's education system played the larger role in English educational development. (KDR)

Asserts that William Wordsworth's poetry influenced teacher training for British educators and promoted the development of the English Department. Notes several legislative measures that played a role in English curricula. Concludes that current pedagogic studies make academic practice assumptions based on historic precedence dating back to…

Focuses on pupil behavior as a tool for examining Finnish primary, elementary, and secondary schools beyond the earning of credentials. Concludes that the basis of educational reform has often came as much from schools changing reforms than the reverse. Notes that using pupil behavior as an examination tool will continue. (KDR)

States caution in comparison of education among countries. Urges consideration based on the structure, processes, and outcomes based on in-depth knowledge and understanding of the respective educational systems. Concludes that comparative studies should be based on sound methodology, careful description, and analysis to validly interpret perceived…

Discusses the parameters set by the 1944 British Education Act for part-time continuing education of youth, age 15-18. Created county colleges, but due to lack of consensus about proposals for compulsory continuing education, they were overlooked as leading educators. Abandoned proposals for compulsory education in 1988. (MER)

Focuses on the pioneering efforts concerning moral education and educational reform by British educator Frederick James Gould. Discusses the application of his socialistic ideas to further three causes: (1) socialism and secularism; (2) positivism; and (3) a form of middle class radicalism. (KDR)

Explores central features of implementing the Dalton Plan, a system of individualized instruction, in English schools. Provides historical information on Helen Parkhurst, the creator of the Dalton Plan. Explores the validity of claims that the Dalton Plan provided short-term educational and long-term social effects. (CMK)

Discusses the revisionist historical stance toward the position taken by female educationists in the eighteenth century. Describes the context in which these women worked and lived. Concludes that the influence of these females was ambiguous. Suggests that, although these women aimed to raise women's stature through education, they cannot be…

This article discusses the project of tribal education in the British colonial state in the mid-nineteenth century and the shape into which it developed in Chhotanagpur, an obscure area of east India under the Presidency of Bengal. Known as the "Ruhr of India", it is now the southern part of the State of Jharkhand. Up to the 1840s there…

This paper examines recently discovered photographs of Arizona Indian schools. The amateur snapshots were drawn from a personal album of about 150 photographs collected by a woman who apparently worked at the Pima Indian school in Sacaton. The name of the woman who made the album and sketchy captions is unknown, handwritten on the front or back…

Given the prominence in Victorian society of some of William George Spencer's pupils, his development of an extended curriculum for both sexes, and the fact that his textbook on inventional geometry was considered to be the most Pestalozzian published in England, he remains a remarkably undervalued figure in the history of education. Despite a…