History of Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Language Teaching Through the Ages

   By Garon Wheeler

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Konrad Koerner, a leading historian of linguistics, has long said that an academic field cannot be considered to have matured until it has history as one of its subfields. The history of linguistics is a growing area, having come into its own in the 1960s, especially after Noam Chomsky looked for...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

   Divided Memories

   Edited by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Corporatism, Social Control, and Cultural Domination in Education: From the Radical Right to Globalization

   The Selected Works of Joel Spring

   By Joel Spring

   Series: World Library of Educationalists

   Starting with the 1972 publication of his seminal work, Education and the Rise of the Corporate State, Joel Spring has been documenting and analyzing the politics of knowledge and education. Throughout his work he has explored the attempts to use education to advance the economic and political...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Education 3–13

   40 Years of Research on Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education

   Edited by Mark Brundrett, Michael Bottery, PETER SILCOCK, Rosemary Webb, Neil Burton, Diane Duncan, Wei Zhang

   Series: Education Heritage

   Primary education is one of the most important phases of learning but there remains a scarcity of in-depth research on this vital topic. However, as the focus on improving outcomes increases there is a growing interest internationally in research that helps us to understand the best ways to help...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Education and Social Change

   Contours in the History of American Schooling, 4th Edition

   By John L. Rury

   This brief, interpretive history of American schooling focuses on the evolving relationship between education and social change. Like its predecessors, this new edition investigates the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration and cultural conflict on the...

   Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
6. Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices

   Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study

   By Joan Elias Gore

   Series: RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education

   This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality....

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers

   By Hilton Kelly

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book explores a profoundly negative narrative about legally segregated schools in the United States being "inherently inferior" compared to their white counterparts. However, there are overwhelmingly positive counter-memories of these schools as "good and valued" among former students,...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Gender and Education in China

   Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century

   By Paul J. Bailey

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times

   Rethinking Theory and Practice

   Edited by Beth C. Rubin, James M. Giarelli

   Series: Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series

   This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.S. society; re-examining these notions in an increasingly interconnected global context; re-considering the ways that civic education is researched and practiced; and taking stock of where we are...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
10. The Education of Eros

    A History of Education and the Problem of Adolescent Sexuality

    By Dennis L. Carlson

    Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

    The Education of Eros is the first and only comprehensive history of sexuality education and the “problem” of adolescent sexuality from the mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st. It explores how professional health educators, policy makers, and social and religious conservatives...

    Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge