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Marisol Osorio; José R. Álvarez Múnera – History of Education, 2025
This paper seeks to deepen our understanding of how the emergence of industrial engineering degrees in a Colombian region related with industrial, economic and societal dynamics in the first decades of the twentieth century. To this end, it explores the insertion of the graduates of the first cohorts of the Chemical Engineering programme of the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Faculty, Science Teachers, Science Education
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Beth Marsden – History of Education, 2025
This paper examines media representations and surrounding discourse of holiday programmes developed for Aboriginal children in 1950s and 1960s Australia. Using a series of case studies and print media reports, this paper examines how white settler organisers and newspapers constructed narratives about holiday programmes as part of broader settler…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Indigenous Populations, Decision Making
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Jones, Allan – History of Education, 2020
During 1931-1933 several BBC radio broadcasts invited listeners to participate in what would now be termed 'citizen science' experiments. Scientists broadcast on a research topic, and asked for relevant data and observations from listeners. Most of these broadcasts were part of the "Science in the Making" series. Topics investigated…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science Education, Educational History