History of Education Review: Volume 50 Issue 1
Strapline:
The official journal of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education SocietyTable of contents - Special Issue: History of Education in China and Beyond
Guest Editors: AdamNelson, WangHuimin
Western educational historiography and the institutionalization of normal schools in modern China (1901–1944)
Wang Chen, Luo Wei, Wu YuefeiThis paper traces the incorporation of western educational histories in the development of normal-school curricula during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China…
The reception and use of John Dewey's educational ideas by Hu Shi in the Early Republic of China
Kang ZhaoSome studies have claimed that Chinese thinker Hu Shi (or Hu Shih) received and responded to John Dewey's educational ideas only at a theoretical level and did little for…
The fate of traditional schools in a context of educational modernization: the case of Si-shu in China
Chunjiao Jiang, Pengcheng MaoThe purpose of this paper is to examine how Si-shu, a traditional form of local, private education grounded in classical instruction, responded to the rapid modernization of…
Whose books? The Harvard-Yenching Institute's library and the question of academic imperialism
Liu QingThis essay focuses on the Chinese-Japanese Library of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and examines how the Library collected and transported Chinese rare books to the United States…
The National Defense Education Act, the American Association of University Professors and the dilemma of academic freedom in the mid-twentieth century
Huimin WangThis study asks how American institutions of higher education defended the principles of academic freedom (or intellectual autonomy) during the 1950s, even as they became…
A political history of Chinese historiography on “foreign education”
Luxi Chen, Yiqing SuThis paper examines China's historiography on foreign education since 1900, with an emphasis on the period since 1949. The understanding of “foreign education” in China during…
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0819-8691Online date, start – end:
2004Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof Helen Proctor
- Prof Julie McLeod
- Dr Tamson Pietsch