Recently added articles from History of Education Review:
Urged for more than fifty years: veterinary education in New Zealand, c1900-1964.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Burns, Edgar ... After the 1907 collapse of the new Otago University Veterinary School, a gap of over half a century elapsed before the Massey University Veterinary Faculty was opened in 1964. This interval means linear professionalisation accounts from pre-modern animal care by farriers and cow leeches to ...
Her civilising mission: discovering Hannah King through her textiles.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Caughley, Vivien ... "A first female teacher in the New Zealand Mission" (1) Hannah King (2) occupies a unique place in missionary and colonial history, the history of education, cross-cultural relations and material culture in New Zealand. She was the only woman from the first 1814 Missionary ...
When the English began to hate: the manufacture of German demonisation in British school history textbooks 1900-1930.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Crawford, Keith ... Introduction There are a significant number of studies that argue that since the rise of mass education school textbooks have become essential instructional tools for curriculum delivery and that the school textbook holds a unique and significant social function: to represent to ...
Countrymindedness and the democratic intellect: permutations and combinations in a Victorian country state school, 1853 to 2007.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Ely, Richard ... 'Countrymindedness' is a resonant but perhaps manufactured term, given wide currency in a 1985 article by political scientist and historian Don Aitkin in the Annual, Australian Cultural History. (1) Political ideology was his focus, as he charted the rise and fall--from the late nineteenth ...
Learning in nowhere: individualism in correspondence education in 1938 and 1950.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Lee, Francis ... [In correspondence education] there is no class work in the ordinary sense. Each pupil's course is his own. The subjects that comprise it can be chosen to suit the individual pupil alone. The emphasis can be laid where it is most needed. The pupil proceeds at his own pace, independently of ...
More than the ordinary domestic drudge: women and technical education in Auckland 1895-1922.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Shaw, Louise ... Introduction Like many of his generation George George, the director of Auckland's Seddon Memorial Technical College (2) (1902-22), considered marriage and motherhood as women's true vocation and believed in separate but equal education for girls that included some domestic ...
The politics of activity: emergence and development of educational programs for people with disabilities between 1750 and 1860.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; Verstraete, Pieter ... From that moment on, a multitude of these individuals, who in the middle of all us seem to be death when compared to us, regain movement, action and life like we ourselves. Abbe C.M. de l'Epee, 1776 (1) Politics, activity and the history of disability ...
Wilf Malcolm and Nicholas Tarling, Crisis of Identity? The Mission and Management of Universities in New Zealand.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Horn, Michiel ... Wilf Malcolm and Nicholas Tarling, Crisis of Identity? The Mission and Management of Universities in New Zealand, Wellington, Dunmore Publishing, 2007, 256 pages, ISBN 1877399272, pbk. During the last few years the neo-liberal ideology (or faith) has come to seem disreputable to ...
J. Wesley Null, Peerless Educator. The Life and Work of Isaac Leon Kandel.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Barcan, Alan ... J. Wesley Null, Peerless Educator. The Life and Work of Isaac Leon Kandel, New York, Peter Lang, 2007, xxxv + 338 pp, ISBN 978-0-8204-7488-8, pbk. I still have the nine pages of notes I made more than fifty years ago when I discovered I. L. Kandel's The Cult of Uncertainty. I ...
Mary Hilton, Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young: Education and Public Doctrine 1750-1850.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Watts, Ruth ... Mary Hilton, Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young: Education and Public Doctrine 1750-1850, Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, 286 pages, ISBN 0784687906, hardcover. This excellent book is a further step in the project, ...
David Crook and Gary McCulloch (eds.), History, Politics and Policy-making: A Festschrift presented to Richard Aldrich.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Potts, Anthony ... David Crook and Gary McCulloch (eds.), History, Politics and Policy-making: A Festschrift presented to Richard Aldrich, London, Institute of Education, University of London, 2007, 217 pages, ISBN 0-85-473786-3, pbk. Probably most of us will have to content ourselves with a ...
John Ramsland and Christopher Mooney, Remembering Aboriginal Heroes.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; D'arbon, Mark ... John Ramsland and Christopher Mooney, Remembering Aboriginal Heroes, Melbourne, Brolga Publishing, 2006, 373 pages, ISBN 192078888X: 9871920788887, pbk. The characters that enliven past events, like small candles in the darkness, provide us with sometimes surprising insights ...
Martin Forsey, Challenging the System: A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; Campbell, Craig ... Martin Forsey, Challenging the System: A Dramatic Tale of Neoliberal Reform in an Australian High School, Charlotte (NC), Information Age Publishing, 2007, ISBN-13:9781-89311-878-4. In this book, Martin Forsey has contributed an ethnographically-based study of reform in an ...
Marion Halligan, A Toast to Professor Appleton.(Brief article)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2009; May, Josephine ... Marion Halligan, A Toast to Professor Appleton, with French translation by Carole Mandicourt, The Kelveriania Series, Mt Nebo Qld: Mandicourt Boombana Publications, 2007, ISBN 1876842128, pbk. Australian fictional accounts featuring sustained depictions of university lecturers ...
