May 29, 2012
Historians of Education in Scotland (HEdScot) conference 2011Glenda White (University of Glasgow)David Stow and teacher education21 October 2011 Abstract: In his day job David Stow was a successful carpet manufacturer but when, at the age of eighteen, he joined St...
May 23, 2012
Historians of Education in Scotland (HEdScot) conference 2011Christopher Bischof (Rutgers University)Pay, Prestige, and Lifestyle: the Hiring of Elementary Teachers in Glasgow and the Highlands and Islands, 1846-1902 21 October 2011 Abstract: This paper examines the...
May 22, 2012
Historians of Education in Scotland (HEdScot) conference 2011 Atsuko Betchaku (University of Edinburgh)Japanese education and social welfare policies and Scottish Evangelicals, 1870s to the 1920s21 October 2011 Abstract: This paper considers how Scottish Evangelicals’...
May 21, 2012
Today we bring you the first in a series of podcasts from an external conference by the HEDScot network (Historians of Education in Scotland). This conference took place at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 21 October 2011 and looked at various aspects of Scottish...
Mar 28, 2012
Histories of Home6 December 2011Helen Schneider (University of Oxford)Domestic responsibilities: the discipline of home economics in twentieth century China The development of home economics education in China in the early twentieth-century was in part a parallel to...