Studio music teachers have always been constant in Australian society, rarely recognised beyond their immediate surrounds. Building a 'connection' of students required advertising, primarily by word-of-mouth or via local press announcements. Few teachers placed individual advertisements in local papers. This changed in 1911 with the establishment…

Mariachi programs entered the public schools in the Southwest in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Chicano movement ushered in an awakening of pride in Mexican heritage. The purpose of this historical biography was to examine the life and career of mariachi educator Ezekiel (Zeke) Castro (b. 1939). Zeke Castro taught mariachi and orchestra…

This paper looks at the phenomenon of upward mobility through education from a comparative and historical perspective. Pierre Bourdieu referred to upwardly mobile individuals in France as the miraculous ("les miraculés"), oblates ("oblats"), or, less often, defectors ("transfuges"). A difficulty with applying a theory…

Jane Frazee, an American music educator, administrator, and author has contributed to music education in the United States. This article surveys the impact of her efforts from 1960 to 2015. A pioneer member and past president of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA), she taught music to children and adults using the Orff approach and has…

The numbers of Chinese teenagers studying abroad have dramatically increased since the late 1990s, and this phenomenon has received significant attention from researchers and policymakers alike. There is substantial consensus about its proximate causes -- the recent changes in the higher education landscape and the labour market in China and…

An account of the early work of a rural educational pioneer, of interest for its remarkable parallelism to the social factors bearing upon many rural areas at the present time. (Editor/RY)

Article detailed the contributions of the architect of Surrealism, Andre Breton. (RK)

In continuation of previously published lists of centennial dates in the history of education, the writer presents the following groups of significant dates for 1974, significantly and briefly. (Author)

Article evaluated the character and compositions of the eccentric French artists, Erik Satie. (RK)

Article provided a profile of the American composer, Charles Wakefield Cadman, one of the first American composers completely educated in this country. (Author/RK)

Discusses the teaching career and philosophy of Arthur O. Lovejoy, and his tremendous influence on the world's scholarship. (RK)

Author shares some of his thoughts on the positive aspects of professional renewal. (Author/RK)

Article focused on the development and the music of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, commonly called Shakers, since their arrival in the United States on August 6, 1774. (RK)

Nine years before the publication of Ebbinghaus's classic 1885 book on memory, an American physicist, Francis E. Nipher, published brief accounts of his own investigations on this topic. These accounts are reprinted, with commentary and a brief note about Nipher. (Editor)