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McInerney, Daniel J. – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2017
Tuning's progress in the discipline of history in the United States since 2009 illustrates the project's continuing capacity to develop "educational structures and programmes on the basis of diversity and autonomy", maintaining the initiative's original European Union commitment in a markedly different academic environment across the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Skill Development, Competence, Foreign Countries
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Lauzon, Glenn P. – American Educational History Journal, 2012
In the closing weeks of 1867, an educational organization was founded in Washington, D.C., that should have been stillborn. Most farmers dismissed scientific agriculture as useless book-farming. They should have been lukewarm to the Patrons of Husbandry's promise to sponsor monthly meetings for mutual instruction in the application of scientific…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Public Policy, Historians, Educational History
Fraser, James W. – Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 2014
In this commentary, James W. Fraser, a noted historian of education, cites examples from several teacher education programs at more than 30 universities partnering with the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships in various ways. Additionally, Fraser reviews decades of challenges to traditional teacher preparation, looks at some current reforms, and…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational History, Historians, Teacher Education Programs
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Lauzon, Glenn P. – American Educational History Journal, 2010
For most of the nineteenth century, county agricultural fairs had little to do with schools and schooling; nevertheless, they served as potent sources of learning. During the post-Civil War generation, most of the learning county agricultural fairs generated had little to do with livestock, crops, and cultivation; nevertheless, farmers and others…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Counties, Agriculture, Exhibits
Lauzon, Glenn P. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
How do people use education to respond to change? How do people learn what is expected of "good citizens" in their communities? These questions have long concerned educational historians, civic educators, and social scientists. In recent years, they have captured national attention through high-profile education reform proposals and…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Municipalities, Rural Population, Educational History
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Pace, David; Erekson, Keith A. – History Teacher, 2006
In the four decades since the creation of this journal, historians in North America have seen a steady increase in the materials available to assist them in more effectively sharing the fruits of their discipline with their students. In the 1990s this effort was given a new intensity by the introduction into academia of the concept of a…
Descriptors: Historians, Web Sites, Newspapers, International Organizations