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Rogers, Rebecca Elizabeth – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2012
This article focuses on the first school for indigenous girls in Algeria that opened in Algiers in 1845. The founder, Eugenie Luce, taught girls the rudiments--French language and grammar, reading, arithmetic, and Arabic, while the afternoon hours were devoted to sewing. This early focus on teaching French in order to achieve the "fusion of…
Descriptors: Females, Vocational Education, Arabs, Workshops
Wood, Richard E. – 1975
Second language instruction in the U.S. and Europe is in difficulties. The choice of a second language is artibrary and the motivation dubious. In Europe and now also in the U.S., attention has turned to the planned interlanguage Esperanto, which offers a maximally regularized structure, is considered "easy" by learners, and has the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Experiments, Interlanguage
Holmstrand, Lars – 1975
This report describes the background, aim and design of the EPAL (English in the elementary school) project in Sweden. As background to the project, a survey is included of the increasingly important position of teaching English from the 1940's through the great school reforms of the 50's and 60's. Developments in foreign language teaching in the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Experiments, Educational Planning, Elementary Education