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Tracie Denice Rushing – ProQuest LLC, 2024
"The Forgotten Classrooms: Uncovering the Educational Experiences of Japanese American Students During World War II" explores the impact of forced evacuation and internment on the academic and social development of Japanese American students. This study delves into the unique challenges faced by Japanese American students during a time…
Descriptors: Japanese Americans, Educational History, Historical Interpretation, Racism
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Edmund Adam – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
The war in Ukraine has opened a Pandora's Box of internationalization concerns that, heretofore, took a backseat to concerns with the effectiveness and sustainability of the field. In analyzing the impact of the war on international higher education, scholars offered various assessments of the conflict's effects, especially in the combatant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Conflict, International Education
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Redding, Kimberly A. – History of Education, 2020
This essay explores how both German and international educators mobilised history curricula to reshape German collective identity between 1945 and 1950, focusing particular attention on depictions of the "deutsche Vertriebene" (German expellees) in curricular plans and textbooks. In the mid-1940s, 12-15 million ethnic Germans were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Curriculum Development, Public Education
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Brita A. Bookser – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
A critical reappraisal of the origin story of early care and education (ECE) in the United States, this article unsettles dominant narratives by investigating the carceral foundations and liberatory strategies that characterise the emergence and sociopolitical evolution of ECE. Integrating Foucauldian counter-historical genealogy and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Story Telling, Minority Group Influences, United States History
Jennifer K. Hurst – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation is a historical study of the teacher labor force with a particular focus on race. It sought to explore changes in the Black teacher labor market after desegregation through the examination of factors related to Black college graduates becoming teachers; Black teachers' migration patterns during the final years of integration…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, Labor Force, Educational History, Racial Segregation
Burris, Carol; Pfleger, Ryan – Network for Public Education, 2020
Charter schools began in the 1990s as an experimental alternative to public schools. Today they are a multi-billion dollar sector composed of both nonprofit and for-profit corporations that embrace the philosophy of the marketplace. Supporters of charters see school failure as a natural feature of the model. They argue that schools do not fail at…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fisher, Roy – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2019
The evacuation of civilians during Second World War Britain included the relocation not only of school children and teachers but of whole schools and, in some instances, of teacher training colleges. This paper examines the evacuation of Avery Hill College, a leading teacher training college, from London to Huddersfield between 1941 and 1946.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, War, World History
Seth N. Key – Online Submission, 2025
This paper explores the 2013 merger between Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools. The paper looks at this merger through a historical and philosophical perspective. At the core of the paper, it analyzes the effects of the merger and what role leadership and community opposition played in shaping its legacy.
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Counties, Organizational Change
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Murray, Jean – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
This article draws together theoretical ideas from studies of space/spatiality and the history of teacher education. These ideas form a theoretical framework through which to analyse the findings from a small-scale ethnographic study of the geographical relocations made by two university schools of education in England. Data collection instruments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Relocation, School Location
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Rice, Alanna – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2010
In this article, the author talks about schooling and the development of literacy within Algonquian communities in eighteenth-century southern New England. With the founding of Moor's Indian Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1754, congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock launched an educational regimen that aimed to Christianize and…
Descriptors: United States History, Letters (Correspondence), Literacy, Historians
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Surface, Jeanne – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2011
The purpose of the study was to make a qualitative assessment of the impact of school consolidation on several rural Nebraska communities that have recently lost their schools. This research uses a multiple-case study design with interviews conducted in three Nebraska communities. The data from this research fell into four broad themes: social…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Qualitative Research, Rural Schools, School Closing
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Nguyen, Thu Su'o'ng Thi – Educational Policy, 2010
The article explores the ways "uneven geographical development" conditions and is conditioned by local placemaking practices. Guided by David Harvey's work along with Henri Lefebvre's three dimensions of spatial production--spatial practices, representations of space, and spaces of representation or the "spatial imaginary"--I…
Descriptors: Parent School Relationship, Ethnography, Urban Schools, Elementary Schools
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Laukaitis, John J. – American Educational History Journal, 2005
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) created the Relocation Program in 1952 to sever Indian federal trust status and impose Euro-American values on Indians all under the guise of benevolence. Led from reservations to urban areas, Indians found the problems of their reservations in their new locations: few employment opportunities, poor housing…
Descriptors: Educational History, American Indian Education, Relocation, American Indian History
Susan Nicolai – International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) UNESCO, 2007
This study explores the setting up and development of the first Palestinian-led education system, from 1994 to 2005. Given the context of chronic crisis, and the immensity of the endeavour, the Palestinians have made substantial progress in a relatively short time. However, the Palestinian education story does not end here. The author looks at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Educational History
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Ducker, James H. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1996
In the early 1900s, the Alaskan Bureau of Education tried to lure the Inupiat away from "corrupting" white mining communities and encourage settlement of new Native communities by erecting schools in areas isolated from white influence. The Inupiat's interest in Western education plus the opportunity to maintain traditional subsistence…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Cultural Maintenance
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