Educational Foundations

History of Education

  1. A Mirror to Kathleen's Face

    Education in Independent Ireland 1922-60

    By Donald Akenson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1975, Donald Akenson’s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex interrelations of Irish education, institutions and...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge

  2. The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education

    Edited by Blythe Farb Hinitz

    The Hidden History of Early Childhood Education provides an understandable and manageable exploration of the history of early childhood education in the United States. Covering historical, philosophical, and sociological underpinnings that reach from the 1800s to today, contributors explore groups...

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge

  3. History of Early Childhood Education

    By V. Celia Lascarides, Blythe F. Hinitz

    History of Early Childhood Education presents a thorough and elegant description of the history of early childhood education in the United States. This book of original research is a concise compendium of historical literature, combining history with the prominent and influential theoretical...

    Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge

  4. Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century

    Comparative Visions

    Edited by Daniel Tröhler, Thomas S. Popkewitz, David F. Labaree

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    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...

    Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge

  5. The Struggle for the History of Education

    By Gary McCulloch

    Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

    The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been regarded as being merely peripheral rather...

    Published February 16th 2011 by Routledge