This article examines the background in which enterprises called free schools, as well as complementary educational activities, have taken root in Chile. Two kinds of recently burgeoning free schools are identified; one supplementing regular schooling with a social justice focus, and another that is a fully fledged alternative to other schooling.…

"Historical thinking" has a central role in the theory and practice of history education. At a minimum, history educators must work with a model of historical thinking if they are to formulate potential progression in students' advance through a school history curriculum, test that progression empirically, and shape instructional…

This paper seeks to explain and develop a better understanding of the relationship between the History curriculum and the consequences of political motive. It compares the History curricula of Australia and Lebanon, and is relevant to understanding the purpose of the History curricula in the two countries as well as, more generally, other…

This article examines the synergy between a long established discipline, geography, and the younger discipline of educational studies, especially its component, comparative education. Although this synergy was recognised by the founding father of comparative education, Michael Sadler, and one of his principal followers, George Bereday, the…

At the center of this study stands the will to understand the use of the subjects of History and Geography as means of civic education. A new theoretical framework is offered, encompassing different aspects of civic education. With the use of this framework, the Israeli educational system was evaluated as a case study. (Contains 1 table, 1 figure,…

In this study, international recommendations for history education issued by UNESCO and the Council of Europe are compared with the construing of history in national guidelines, teachers' perceptions and the results of students' work in history in Sweden. The study shows how history education from the 1960s onwards could be critical and oriented…

Human rights have become increasingly salient for nations, organizations, and individuals since the end of World War II (Lauren 2003). Discussions of human rights now are common in formal education, including in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). A variety of indicators suggest that countries in Latin America have integrated human rights into…

Formulates some important criteria of a comparative discipline--independent of whichever sphere of knowledge it belongs to--and measures the comparative historical sciences mapped out against criteria. Focuses on the following main points: method, subject, intention, forms, and point of reference or form of reference of comparison. (Author/AH)

In this historical view of the 19th century British initiatives to learn about Continental education methods and problems, the author challenges present-day educationists to reestablish that initiative and enthusiasm, cut off by World War I, so that today more than strictly comparative data can be shared in European education. (JH)

The author reviews the history of Nigerian educational policies from missionary through colonial to national leadership. He calls for a more explicit set of national goals and values upon which to found an effective policy, one which takes advantage of past experience and supplies a spark of national unity. (JH)

Taken from a 1938 book, The Situation at K'angta, this is an account of the struggle against oppression by Japan, and of the educational programs at the Resist Japan Military and Political University

Taken from a 1938 book, The Situation at K'angta, this is an account of the struggle against oppression by Japan, and of the educational programs at the Resist Japan Military and Political University. (JB)

This article describes the role of Lu Hsun inthe repudiation of Confucian teachings during the progress of the Chinese revolution from 1919 through 1949. The reactionary role of Confucius in the twentieth century is emphasized. (DE)