This article brings the work of cultural theorist Mieke Bal and historian Hayden White into a conversation, inviting the reader to consider framing, re-framing, and un-framing as historiographical dispositions. The concept of framing was used as a substitute for context in cultural analysis. The article argues that the concept of framing could be…

This paper makes a bold attempt to make sense of contemporary Koreans' common expectation of the educational role of public school teachers by tracing its historical and cultural roots to the neo-Confucian humanistic tradition of the Joseon dynasty in Korea that lasted for about 500 years until Korea began to modernize in the late nineteenth…

This study aimed to analyse reports prepared by American education specialists visiting Turkey from the Proclamation of the Republic till the end of the 1950's to inspect Turkey's education system. In accordance with this purpose, first, the foreign specialists' reports are briefly introduced chronologically and then American specialist reports…

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…

In the mid-nineteenth century St. Louis children attended as popular and democratic an educational system as the nation ever possessed. (JB)

This book of essays is a survey of recent developments in the history and historiography of American education. It highlights disagreements among practitioners of the art, significant research, book reviews, and contributions of history to the broader study of American education. Specific topics covered include: public education and the education…

Higher education in China since the revolution has reflected the changes that have transformed the country as a whole. A historical review is presented. (LBH)

Prepared under the Research Grant Program of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO.

This examination of the community-junior college ideology is divided into the following areas: (1) an introductory historical review of the development of the community-junior college movement; (2) the junior college and the age of efficiency (1890-1920); (3) the rise of "terminal education" (1920-1941), including the emphasis on "social…

From her forthcoming history of volunteers in the United States, the author outlines the development of our system of education and the concept of "learning by doing" from the Colonial period to 1900. She describes various organizations and their efforts in many causes, including child and student volunteerism. (MF)

Early tendencies of peace education in Sweden are discussed in this document. The time span is from the second part of the 19th century to the beginning of World War II. Peace education put special emphasis on exposing the contradiction between religious and history education. Religious education preached love and reconciliatory spirit, while…

Identifies six phases of developmental education in American history, each of which naturally interconnects with social history. States that each succeeding phase includes more student subpopulations, beginning in the mid-1600s with privileged white males, to the present, more diverse era. Explores first three phases--which focused on tutoring and…