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Simonetta Polenghi – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Spanish scholars started to pay particular attention to the history of schools' material culture, defining this as "etnohistoria de la escuela". Reflections on the "materiality of schooling" and "school heritage" continued in the years that followed. Teaching tools or,…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational History, Handicrafts, Instructional Materials
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John L. Rudolph – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2024
It has been widely accepted in the science education research community that scientific literacy as a concept and phrase was introduced by Paul deHart Hurd in 1958. Recent research into the origins of the phrase, however, has shown this to be incorrect. Its first published use can be traced back, in fact, to 1945, and the phrase was frequently…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Science Education, Objectives, Educational History
Hong Yi Joshua Tan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the transregional impacts of the 1949 Chinese communist revolution on diasporic Chinese students and scholars in Cold War Asia and Asian America. It argues that higher education was a key site of contestation in the U.S.-China Cold War tensions of the 1950s, where American efforts to contain and isolate communist China…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Relations, Conflict
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Thorben Pelzer – History of Education, 2024
In the early 1920s, the Chinese Ministry of Communications reformed the technical colleges under its control. The era constituted a dogmatic vacuum: Confucian elements had largely been abandoned, and Nationalist Party propaganda had not yet been instated. At Shanghai Jiaotong University, the US-educated civil engineer Ling Hongxun (1894-1981)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Institutional Research, Principals
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Amanda Datnow – Educational Researcher, 2024
Drawing on a set of studies conducted over 3 decades, this article provides a reflection on what has been learned by centering equity questions in research on educational reform. These studies reveal the need to explore educators' belief systems, emotions, and agency in relation to reform. They also underscore the co-constructed nature of reform…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Equal Education, Teacher Attitudes
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Ben Williams – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Free schools were a flagship policy of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition (2010-15), aligned with the broader academisation programme, yet both consolidating and transcending New Labour's educational narrative between 1997 and 2010. Driven by political 'modernisers' such as Prime Minister David Cameron and his Education Secretary Michael…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Educational History, Educational Policy
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Patricia Shehan Campbell – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The vision for musically educating all children in tax-funded schools dates to the early 19th century, at a time when music was initially inserted into the curriculum of common schools. Is that vision being realized today? Why do all children not have equal access to music education by now, regardless of their locations, as per the democratic…
Descriptors: Music Education, Public Education, Educational History, Equal Education
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Manuel Santos-Trigo – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
In tracing recent research trends and directions in mathematical problem-solving, it is argued that advances in mathematics practices occur and take place around two intertwined activities, mathematics problem formulation and ways to approach and solve those problems. In this context, a problematizing principle emerges as central activity to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Educational History, Teaching Methods
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Essi Jouhki – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article studies the history of playgrounds in Finland and focuses on the emergence and implementation of the objectives of the international playground movement in the early twentieth century. Specifically, it examines the relations between supervised playgrounds, women's emancipation, child welfare policies, and political discussion on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Playgrounds, Educational History, Child Welfare
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Man-Keung, Siu – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
It is commonly known that the letter M in the two acronyms HPM and STEM stands for mathematics, and it is natural to regard mathematics as playing a significant role in science education. However, it seems that appropriate attention is not usually accorded to the role of M in the area of STEM where mathematics tends to be marginalized. In fact,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational History, Technology, Role
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Hirsh, Stephanie – Learning Professional, 2022
Standards for Professional Learning are forward-looking by nature because they drive continuous improvement in educator practice. But taking a brief look at the history of the standards is important for understanding their impact on the field and their role in today's professional learning. As the field has shifted philosophy from staff…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Faculty Development, Standards, Educational History
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Armstrong, Laura; Tawfik, Andrew – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
Robotics technologies are a significant tool in many industries. This paper presents a historical analysis of educational robots and how they apply to K-12 education from the past and potential in the future; focusing on the time period before and after the year 2000. The article concludes with future directions for curriculum and robotics in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education, Robotics, Educational History
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Baidoo-Anu, David; DeLuca, Christopher – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
The educational system in Ghana has undergone various reforms as a result of colonisation, changes in government and constitutional amendments. These reforms have been accompanied by changes in educational assessment programmes. This paper explored the history of educational assessment in Ghana, understanding how educational reforms, colonisation…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Accountability
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Kumalo, Siseko H. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2023
In South Africa, the scholarship of epistemic justice has taken on an historical gaze with higher education framed as a social institution that might ameliorate the historical traumas of colonialism. Undoing the legacies of colonialism has been framed as the democratisation of the knowledge project. Using the White Paper 3 of 1997 that posits…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Decolonization, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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Redding, Graham – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This paper considers the distinctive and peculiar place that Presbyterianism and Presbyterian Church schools occupy in New Zealand's education sector. It offers a critical evaluation of the relationship between the church schools and their Presbyterian heritage and the values to which they refer as they seek to define their special character. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Religious Schools, Religious Factors
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