With the dynamic interest and growth of Action Learning worldwide (with more than fifty varieties), research into their history and evolution has been enhanced with increasing preservation, access and use of primary archival sources. This is, of course, also relevant regarding "traditional" or "classical" Action Learning's…

It is widely believed that modern Ethiopian education began with the opening of Menilek II School in Addis Ababa in 1908 and thereafter spread to other parts of the country. Scholars take this perception for granted and remain reluctant to conduct further investigations into schools before Emperor Menilek II. However, there is historical evidence…

A growing number of climate activists and scholars argue that an effective climate movement needs the involvement of the trade union movement, to be able to push forward the radical social transformations required to address the global climate crisis. If workers are to be able to play this kind of role in a global climate movement, a sustained and…

This paper discusses the emergence and development of popular education in Indonesia. It studies the emergence and development of critical education after the translation of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed in 1985. In addition to Freire's influential book, the Frankfurt School's critical theory has influenced the development of critical…

This paper argues that the failure to implement state technical education in Bolivia was one of the reasons for the country's economic backwardness. The work makes a key contribution to the history of Bolivian education as it studies aspects not dealt with in the literature so far. First, it details the chronology of the development of technical…

This article critically re-evaluates the evolution of African higher education by tracing its development across three key epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Drawing on over 120 secondary sources--including legal ordinances, policy documents, archival records, and peer-reviewed literature--the article adopts a historical-analytical…

An academic volume is a literary text, and the knowledge within is a subject to its interpretation. In the spirit of work by last century's great literary scholars Auerbach (Time History and Literature. Princeton University Press, 253-265, 2014) and De Man (The Resistance to Theory. University of Minnesota Press. 21-26, 1987) I have applied a film…

This article, which is related to a longer piece to be published in 2023, starts from the point of view that, despite some issues, there may be borrowable ideas in how South Korea and Japan developed their education systems, especially at the outset of their modern periods of educational development. However, in the popular press, and even among…

Community colleges created opportunities for expansion to feed into four-year institutions in the United States. Community colleges served high school students, military veterans, and diverse student populations in U.S. communities. In the twenty-first century, various educational needs and rebuilding processes existed for many community colleges…

The first years of the 20th century saw an intriguing partnership between two high-profile figures in elementary education. Between them they offered a tantalising progressive vision for primary schooling. Harriet Johnson gained followers for Sompting School as far away as the USA and Japan, and the chief inspector of elementary schools, Edmond…

This paper compares concerted efforts to unify early instructional practice in the US in the early twentieth century and in the twenty-first century. The first effort began with the founding of the National Council for Primary Education in 1915; the second began in 2005 with calls for pre-K-3 alignment. Analysis of relevant sources indicates that…

Australia's large private school sector receives high levels of public funding, has a high and increasing share of enrolments and advantaged students, and a decreasing share of disadvantaged students. Employing an historical sociology approach and drawing on primary and secondary sources, I argue that this ascendency arose from the inherent…

The term "governance" is one of the most widely applied concepts in education policy and research. Yet its meaning has changed over space and time both analytically and normatively. This history is a complicated one marked by both shifts and continuations in the politics of language and the development of unique intellectual histories…

First published in 1967, "The Foundations of Twentieth-Century Education in England" examines events and decisions which shaped the development of the educational system during the first half of the twentieth century. Professor Eaglesham goes into the background of the controversial Education Act of 1902, in particular the activities of…

The policy problem of Vocational Education and Training (VET) development is an ongoing challenge for many developing countries. International organisations and donor agencies conceptualise the problem as one of skill supply and demand mismatch. Such a market-based perspective offers important insights into the problem; however, it does not…