"'A Cultural History of Education' is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of education from ancient times to the pres

"The period between 1800 and 1920 was pivotal in the global history of education and witnessed many of the key developments which still shape the aims, context

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowled

When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middle of the twentieth century, art educatio