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Friesen, Norm – European Educational Research Journal, 2021
Klaus Mollenhauer (1928-1998) is one of the most important German theorists of education in the postwar era. Mollenhauer is often remembered in Germany today for his first book titled "Education and Emancipation: Polemical Sketches," but he received international renown for his final monograph, "Forgotten Connections: On Culture and…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Teaching Methods, Personal Autonomy
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Sendra Ramos, Susana; Astiaso, Pedro Lara; López, Susana Miró – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2022
Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) was a well-known English educator whose work and legacy is certainly worthy of consideration today. One of the most interesting aspects of her philosophy of education is the fact that she adopts an anthropological approach: the consideration of the child as a person whose natural desire to know can only be satisfied…
Descriptors: Biographies, Educational Philosophy, Anthropology, Literature
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Steinberg, Shoshana; Krumer-Nevo, Michal – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Education is considered a path for escaping poverty. However, poverty and lack of success in school are closely linked. Understanding structural factors within society that cause poverty and their influence on learning and educational outcomes requires reshaping teacher education programmes. There is a need for programmes that adopt the social…
Descriptors: Poverty, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs
Brooks, Jeffrey S., Ed.; Normore, Anthony H., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2017
What new ideas and ways of thinking can educational leaders learn from great world leaders who have moved their societies to greater equity and expanded educational opportunity? In this lively, accessible volume, the editors have brought together an impressive group of senior and early-career educational scholars to study the lives and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Profiles, Leaders, Biographies
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Greenslade, Thomas B., Jr. – Physics Teacher, 2019
Ask a physics person what the name of Robert A. Millikan brings to mind, and most would immediately think of the eponymous experiments that he did with the charge on the electron in the years 1908 to 1913. A few might remember his work, starting in 1914, with the experimental determination of Planck's constant using the photoelectric effect. Few…
Descriptors: College Science, Scientists, Biographies, Physics
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Avraamidou, Lucy – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2019
The aim of this multiple case study was to uncover a series of critical events and experiences related to the formation of the science identities of four beginning elementary female teachers, through a life-history approach and a conceptualization of teacher identity as "lived experience." Grounded within the theoretical framework of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Science Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Professional Identity
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May, Josephine – History of Education, 2020
Between 1870 and 1940, 25 white, middle-class, Australian-born women studied at Girton and Newnham Colleges in Cambridge. This article presents their biographical data, and includes all those listed as Australian-born in Volume 1 of the Girton Register and in the "Newnham College Roll" for the period under review. The article examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Females, Student Characteristics
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Engel, Juliane – Ethnography and Education, 2020
The article aims to develop a theory of biographical knowledge and practices of aesthetic articulation. Thus, it examines the aesthetic practices of young people beyond their verbal utterances. Using seven video case studies, it demonstrates the extent to which biographical knowledge is articulated in aesthetic practices -- drawing, dancing,…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Aesthetics, Video Technology, Case Studies
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Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
This article provides photographs, quotes, and a timeline that traces Maria Montessori's legacy.
Descriptors: Biographies, Montessori Method, Montessori Schools, Early Childhood Education
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McGregor, Sue L. T. – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2020
In the spirit of the 110th anniversary of the American Association for Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS), which was celebrated in 2019, this paper traces Ellen Swallow Richards' lasting contributions to the discipline and profession, focusing on the years leading up to its formation in 1909. Within a span of approximately 15 years, she…
Descriptors: Home Economics, Educational Change, Educational History, Biographies
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Pérez-Moreno, Jessica; Carrillo, Carmen – International Journal of Music Education, 2020
This study examines the impact made by music education on a sample of Catalan citizens who studied this subject during their compulsory schooling. A biographical narrative methodology was used to investigate a broad spectrum of the participants' school musical experiences and to analyze the impact that music education has had on different aspects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Outcomes of Education, Biographies
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Perrotta, Katherine A. – American Educational History Journal, 2023
Dr. Jessie Wallace Hughan was a trailblazing New York City public school educator and pacifist. Hughan was a socialist, and she was among numerous teachers who faced investigations for anti-patriotic activities at the turn of the 20th-century, when teachers across the country faced intense scrutiny and legal challenges if they were suspected of…
Descriptors: Biographies, United States History, Academic Freedom, Educational History
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Muñoz-García, Ana Luisa; Lira, Andrea; Loncón, Elisa – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2022
In this paper, we dialogue about the processes of knowledge construction that work through and disrupt academic regulations. As feminist, Indigenous, and non-Indigenous Latinx scholars, we build on the reflections stemming from our research of Mapuche women's biographies of schooling. We focus on three tensions of knowledge production within and…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Academic Language, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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Bron, Agnieszka; Thunborg, Camilla; Osman, Ali – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
This paper explores learning trajectories in becoming 'rural women' in Sweden, by using a biographical and socially-situated learning perspective. The data is based on in-depth biographical interviews with three young women who moved between rural and urban areas, and finally decided to return to a rural area. The findings show three learning…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Rural Population, Females, Employed Women
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Thomas Walsh; Noel Purdy – History of Education, 2025
A long tradition of both State and religious interest and support characterised provision for education on the island of Ireland from the 1700s. Following the partition of Ireland in the 1920s, the newly created political entities of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland forged separate and distinct education policy trajectories that largely…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational History, Public Officials, Religious Factors
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