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Maraldo, Jill – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation focuses on the systems and structures of formal and informal education in Ancient Greece under the leadership of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and the systems and structures of education and discourse on social media, specifically on blogs and Twitter. Using historical documentary research methodology of primary and secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Philosophy, Social Media
Chango, Mawaki – ProQuest LLC, 2012
What does a digital identity token have to do with medieval seals? Is the history of passports of any use for enabling the discovery of Internet users' identity when crossing virtual domain boundaries during their digital browsing and transactions? The agility of the Internet architecture and its simplicity of use have been the engines of its…
Descriptors: Identification, Information Technology, Internet, Credentials
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Black, Sarah – Teaching History, 2015
Sarah Black wanted to remedy Year 9's lack of knowledge about nineteenth-century politics. With just five lessons to work with, she decided to devise a sequence on Gladstone and Disraeli, shaping the sequence with an enquiry question that invited argument about change and continuity. Black analyses the status and function of different layers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Campaigns, Political Affiliation, History Instruction
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Worth, Paula – Teaching History, 2012
Paula Worth was searching not only for a rigorous question, capable of engendering genuine debate, but also for an engaging and enjoyable activity that would secure GCSE students' substantive knowledge. The answer--or rather the question--lay in counterfactual thinking: a carefully crafted game that she devised, based on the structure of a game by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Educational Games, Competition
Zhao, Huafang; Wade, Julie – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2014
The Office of Shared Accountability (OSA) in Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) examined academic performance of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students in U.S. History and Modern World History courses, as well as the course sequence in ESOL U.S. History and Modern World History. In MCPS, students who are not ESOL…
Descriptors: Public Schools, United States History, Modern History, World History
Lindsey, Ursula – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013
In Tunisian and Egyptian universities, scholars face a growing Islamist resolve to remake their countries on the basis of religious principles. Both Tunisia and Egypt face questions that could affect higher education across the Middle East and North Africa: Can their new Islamist governments spread conservative religious values and also create…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Arabs, Foreign Countries, Modern History
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Albicher, Alexander – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
Although the history of history education is an under-researched topic worldwide, the international literature about history education contains a clear image of the historical development of the school subject. This image basically consists of a sharp dichotomy between traditional history education, which was largely insensitive to topical affairs…
Descriptors: Modern History, History Instruction, Textbooks, Educational History
Trohler, Daniel, Ed.; Popkewitz, Thomas S., Ed.; Labaree, David F., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational History, Comparative Education, Modern History
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Baader, Meike S. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
The subject of this paper is the construction of childhood as a time of happiness in different historical periods. It first analyses the construction of childhood as a time of happiness in the German romantic period in the eighteenth century. Secondly, the paper discusses the construction of happy mothers and children in "The Century of…
Descriptors: Modern History, Children, Foreign Countries, Educational History
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Baker, Michael – Policy Futures in Education, 2012
This article sketches a post-Occidental interpretation of the historical/conceptual relationships between modern western education and European civilizational identity formation. Modern western education will be interpreted as a modern/colonial institution that emerged along with the sixteenth-century responses to the questions provoked by the…
Descriptors: Modern History, Western Civilization, Ethnocentrism, Historiography
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Wooten, Marian H. – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2011
The purpose of this learning activity was to teach undergraduate students about recreation and leisure experiences of the older members of the Lumbee Tribe who attended the local university. This activity utilized ethnographic interviews to teach students about the local community and college life for those from older generations. Ethnography is a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Modern History, Recreational Activities, Ethnography
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Azzopardi, Andrew – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
What happens when people find themselves left out of communities? Who is missing and why does it matter? What can one do to narrow the gap? What is community? How has community been represented in theory? The quality of life of a population is an important concern in so many areas, and a significant part of our standard of living is measured by…
Descriptors: Community Development, Living Standards, Quality of Life, Economic Factors
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Siemsen, Hayo – Science & Education, 2012
George Sarton had a strong influence on modern history of science. The method he pursued throughout his life was the method he had discovered in Ernst Mach's "Mechanics" when he was a student in Ghent. Sarton was in fact throughout his life implementing a research program inspired by the epistemology of Mach. Sarton in turn inspired many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Modern History, Epistemology, Science Education
Pahl, Ron H. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
Teaching history should not be reciting an endless list of dead men, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, "Breaking Away from the Textbook" offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's…
Descriptors: World History, Class Activities, Learning Activities, Textbooks
Kyong-McClain, Jeffrey – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation considers whether or not archaeology was an effective tool for nation-building elites in Republican China (1912-1949), by looking at the discipline's fortunes in the off-center locale of Sichuan province. Through consideration of the multiplicity of agents and motives involved in archaeological enterprise in Republican Sichuan,…
Descriptors: Archaeology, Asian History, Modern History, Nationalism
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