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Teaching Physics to Adolescents in France during the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
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Nahum, Carole Esther – History of Education, 2022
History of education reveals that the perimeter of a school subject as well as the manner of teaching it may vary according to the time period, the country, its political situation and its economic needs. Furthermore, if it clearly depends on the level of the learners and on the school itself, sometimes the teacher's preoccupations can adapt it.…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Decorative or Didactic? "Art à l'école" and the Ambivalent Status of Aesthetics and Democracy in "Belle Époque" Primary Schools
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Brion, Katherine – History of Education, 2022
The "Belle Époque" quest for a modern beauty (an 'art nouveau') extended into France's system of free primary schooling, established in the 1880s by the Third Republic to educate the popular masses. Design reformers' belief in the underlying unity of the fine and applied arts, and their growing emphasis on the importance of individual…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Education, Design, Fine Arts
"Éducation Permanente" in France en Route to 'Permanent Education' at the Council of Europe? Revisiting a "Projet Social" to Create 'a Long Life of Learning'
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Hake, Barry J. – History of Education, 2018
Focused on the period between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, this paper explores the pan-European dissemination of policy proposals articulating "éducation permanente" as involving reforms in the architecture of initial and post-initial education in the direction of promoting 'a long life of learning'. It seeks to identify the key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Lifelong Learning, Educational Change
Entanglement and Transnational Transfer in the History of Infant Schools in Great Britain and "Salles D'asile" in France, 1816-1881
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Burger, Kaspar – History of Education, 2014
The historical developments of infant schools in Great Britain and "salles d'asile" in France--both precursors of present-day preschools--were interconnected. However, historians have not yet analysed specifically how transnational exchange influenced the growth and nature of these institutions. Drawing on archival data and secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Schools, Preschool Education, Educational History