The Best History of Education Books 2025

1. The Graves of Academe [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The illuminating spirit, or evil genius, of modern educationism was Wilhelm Max Wundt, a Hegelian psychologist who established the world's first laboratory for psychological experimentation at the University of Leipzig, where he worked and taught from 1875 to 1920. He dreamed of transforming psychology, a notably soft'' science dealing in vague generalizations and abstract pronouncements, into a hard'' science, like physics.

The Graves of Academe, Used [Paperback]

2. Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Studying the second generation of women to attend college, this book examines the relationship between gender, higher education, and American society from 1890 to 1920. Gordon draws on college yearbooks, literary magazines and newspapers to analyze the dynamics of campus life.

Gender and Higher Education in the Progressive Era, Used [Paperback]

3. The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Collected here for the first time, these writings demonstrate the range and precision of Philip Rieff's sociology of culture. Rieff addresses the rise of psychoanalytic and other spiritual disciplines that have reshaped contemporary culture.

The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings, Used [Paperback]

4. The Story of England: The House of Tudor (Paperback)

Scandals, secrets, betrayals, politics, ambitions, romances, fatal attraction, pirates, armadas, and disaster-how much do you really know about the House of Tudor? In recent years, the Tudors have been the subject of books, movies, and television series. Their lives have been dissected and used as entertainment, but how much is fact, and how much is fiction? The Tudor dynasty left a definite mark on the modern world and saw some of the most climatic changes in English history. Find out about the delicate game of royal politics that led to a religious reformation, foreign wars, and a cultural renaissance. Discover the Tudors as you've never seen them before in this comprehensive and thrilling book! Let us show you the scandalous world of the Tudors. You will learn about the following: The causes and effects of the Wars of the Roses The life of Margaret Beaufort, the Tudor kingmaker A fatal love affair that ripped England from the papacy and ended in disaster Tragic young royals who died, were disinherited or forced to live in shame A comprehensive guide to the six wives of Henry VIII Who was the Nine Days' Queen? And why was she executed? The truth about Bloody Mary How Queen Elizabeth I became the Virgin Queen Who were Elizabeth I's Sea Dogs, and how did they nearly cause a Spanish invasion? And much, much more! Scroll up and click the "add to cart" button to learn more about the Tudors today!

The Story of England: The House of Tudor (Paperback)

5. Southie Won't Go: A Teacher's Diary of the Desegregation of South Boston High School, Used [Hardcover]

Southie Won't Go: A Teacher's Diary of the Desegregation of South Boston High School by Ione Malloy

Southie Won't Go: A Teacher's Diary of the Desegregation of South Boston High School, Used [Hardcover]

6. The Origins of Public High Schools: A Reexamination of the Beverly High School Controversy [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. There has been considerable debate about the process of and the underlying motivation for the expansion of public education in nineteenth-century America. Interpretations which focused on the role of reformer like Horace Mann, or on the demands by workers for more public education, have been criticized by revisionists who see education being imposed upon an uninterested and unwilling populace by capitalists seeking to maintain a docile labor force during industrialization. Here, Maris. A. Vinovskis challenges that revisionist view, employing sophisticated social science methodology in a work sure to be welcomed by all historians of American education. The revisionist view of the nature of educational changes rests heavily upon the now classical study by Michael Katz of the abolition of the public high school in Beverly, Massachusetts, in the mid-nineteenth century. An especially detailed analysis of education in Beverly is made possible by the unique availability of a list of the voters who supported or opposed the public high school in 1860. Katz used this information to demonstrate that the workers strongly opposed the public high school which he claimed has been established by a small group of the leading capitalists not only to provided educational opportunities for their own children, but also to help restore community harmony which was being eroded by the economic transformation of the town. Vinovskis's study of the origins of the Massachusetts antebellum public high school reanalyzes the establishment of the Beverly Public High School within the broader perspective of the other educational developments occurring in that community as well as in the Commonwealth as a whole. The results raise serious questions about Katz's depiction of the timing of and the reasons for the creation of that institution in Beverly. This reanalysis of the vote to abolish the high school also suggests a very different interpretation of events in Beverly than the one presented by Katz. By expanding the number of factors used in this study as well as employing recently developed techniques of statistical analysis, the importance of the opposition of the workers to the public high school is minimized, while the differences in the needs and resources among the school districts in that community become more important factors. Vinovskis's reexamination does not find that the struggle over the Beverly Public High School is primarily a class conflict as suggested by Katz and other revisionists; instead it reveals the complex process by which towns expanded their public school offerings and allocated scarce educational funds to elementary and high schools. His work offers an important contribution to our understanding of the development of American public school education in the nineteenth century.

The Origins of Public High Schools : A Reexamination of the Beverly High School Controversy, Used [Hardcover]

7. Pre-Owned Fred Rogers: A Captivating Guide to the Man Behind Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (Paperback) 1796893277 9781796893274

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Title: Fred Rogers: A Captivating Guide to the Man Behind Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Book Format: Paperback ISBN10: 1796893277 EAN: 9781796893274 Author: History, Captivating CONDITION - GOOD - Pre-Owned - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include 'From the library of' labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.

8. Emile - Rousseau (Everyman's Library) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile , Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed as a virtual rediscovery of that timeless text, again brings together the translator's gift for journeying between two languages and cultures and the philosopher's perception of the true meaning and significance of the issues being examined in the work. The result is a clear, readable, and highly engrossing text that at the same time offers a wholly new sense of the importance and relevance of Rousseau's thought to us.In addition to his translation, Bloom provides a brilliant introduction that relates the structure and themes of the book to the vital preoccupation's of our own age, particularly in the field of education, but also more generally to the current concerns about the limits and possibilities of human nature. Thus in this translation Emile, long a classic in the history of Western thought and educational theory, becomes something more: a prescription, fresh and dazzling, for the bringing up of autonomous, responsible--that is, truly democratic--human beings.

Emile - Rousseau (Everyman's Library), Used [Paperback]

9. The Improvement of the Mind, Used [Paperback]

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

The Improvement of the Mind, Used [Paperback]

10. Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools?: What Early Communities Have to Tell Us [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Are the public schools the public's schools? And if they need to be, what is the public? Public schools today often mean little other than schools paid for by tax revenue. If that is all they are, they may mean far less in the future than they have in the past. Communities built the first schools and, in turn, the common work of establishing them "built" the communities. Yet we seldom take that into account now when we try to improve our schools. The people who supported the cause of education made the effort because it was their cause. And it was their cause because the schools were their schools. Champions of public education had to deal with articulate critics who argued that common schooling wasn't a requirement for democracy because nothing could be more absurd than encouraging "people to read and judge for themselves." Giving everyone as much schooling as they wanted was thought equally absurd; it would be better to determine children's probable destiny and educate them accordingly. And putting youngsters from different social economic backgrounds in the same classroom, according to critics, would never be accepted. Public education was said to be born of an idealism that was as impractical as it was undesirable. Book jacket.

Why Public Schools? Whose Public Schools? : What Early Communities Have to Tell Us, Used [Paperback]