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The First Universities
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 38.00The book is intended as a broad introduction to the subject for students of the history of education. more...
Secondary Education in England 1870-1902
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 128.00In this comprehensive and extensively researched history, John Roach argues for a reassessment of the relative importance of State regulation and private provision. Although the public schools enjoyed their greatest prestige during this period, in terms of educational reform and progress their importance has been exaggerated. The role of the public... more...
Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 130.00The establishment of a national education system soon after the Meiji Restoration of 1868 is recognized as a significant factor in Japan's modernization, hence research on education is concentrated on the state system. However, this development did not mean the disappearance of the juku , the private academies which were so much a feature of the Tokugawa... more...
China's universities, 1895-1995
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 160.00This first comprehensive account of Chinese higher education during the modern period examines the first hundred years of the development of universities in China. more...
ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN SU & SUCC
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 158.00This book provides a comparative history of Islamic education in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet countries. Case studies on Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and on two regions of the Russian Federation, Tatarstan and Daghestan, highlight the importance which Muslim communities in all parts of the Soviet Union attached... more...
Education in ancient India
BRILL 2002; US$ 214.00A survey of all aspects of education in India, both in the oral and written traditions. Chronologically it covers everything from the Vedic period up to the Hindu kingdoms before the establishment of Muslim rule. Techniques of memorization are discussed, along with education in private tutorials. more...
Culture and Power
BRILL 2009; US$ 173.00Challenging absolutist interpretations, this title presents a study that uses the universities of Pisa and Siena to reveal the contradictions and the tensions as well as the innovations and the traditions which characterised the grand duchy of Tuscany and its cultural politics. more...
English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 18471902
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2010; US$ 99.00Filling an important gap in the historiography of Victorian Britain, this book examines the English Catholic Church's efforts during the second half of the nineteenth century to provide elementary education for Catholics. more...
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