The people of the United States are greatly interested in the German systems of industrial and trade education. There is a large demand for information in regard to the general policies of German cities and States in regard to such education, and also for information in regard to schools for special trades. To meet this demand, this bulletin…

This document contains the sixth volume of the "National Series" of the "American Journal of Education." Topics cover scientific and industrial education while providing an account of system, institutions, and courses of instruction in the principles of science applied to the arts of peace and war in different countries. This…

A study of 13th-century industrial regulations in Paris shows how medieval apprenticeships in the textile industry functioned. The investigation interprets wool industry apprenticeship in the context of the production system and the social environment. (SK)

In the United States the term "industrial education" is frequently used to designate everything from the simplest form of bench work in the elementary schools to full-time trade-school work and the work done in training departments of industrial plants. This broad use of the word often leads to considerable confusion, especially since certain…

This bulletin contains a compilation of consular reports on continuation schools in Prussia. It is presented in five sections, as follows: (1) Vocational Training in Magdeburg; (2) Part-Time Schools for Industrial Workers; (3) The City Continuation and Trade School of Brunswick; (4) The Continuation Schools of Barmen; and (5) Part-Time Shoe…

This document contains Volume Five in the "National Series" of the "American Journal of Education." It focuses on scientific and industrial education while providing an account of systems, institutions, and courses of instruction in the principles of science applied to the arts of peace and war in 24 different countries and…

A social constructivist approach is used to study apprenticeship in the textile industry in medieval Paris. Issues of inertia, the dynamics of change, diversity, access to corporations, and the effect of social interactions and conflict on solving problems are examined. (SK)

Examines the writings and speeches of several "progressive" southern academics who formed the basis of the crusade for industrial education for blacks. Shows how these intellectuals lent the authority of their institutions and the weight of their ideas to promote an educational system designed to maintain racial control and black…

Describes the creation of the National League for Industrial Education, the need for the league, its influence on agricultural legislation, and the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. (CT)

About 1900, James W. Ellsworth created the educational system of Ellsworth, Pennsylvania. His aim was to have the system serve a dual purpose: the societal uplift of foreign miners to make them better citizens and the improvement of the company's productive efficiency. Ellsworth's school offered traditional courses along with training in English…

In industrial circles today the sciences and other subjects of a distinct practical nature are looked upon as more important than dead languages and classics; and as a result, technical trade, manual training, and commercial schools and colleges have increased in number, and added emphasis has been made in all schools on commerce and industries.…

Two social welfare reformers in Cincinnati, Edith Campbell and Helen Woolley, used research on sex-typed jobs to influence the establishment of industrial training programs for girls early in the twentieth century. (SK)

This article describes the historical development and philosophy of the social settlement movement, and its subsequent influence on the industrial arts/technology education movement. Examines the English origins of the movement, its development in the United States, the Speyer School, Teachers College at Columbia University, and the movement's…

The States of Central America and South America are in the midst of an industrial development, which imparts new impulses to their educational activities. There is at once an awakened sense of the economic bearings of elementary or popular education and of the need of a readjustment of the work of the long-established secondary schools. Efforts in…

After the statistical report found in Volume II, 1917, Report of the Commissioner of Education, containing statistics for the year 1915-16, had been prepared, the Bureau of Education adopted the plan of collecting statistics biennially instead of annually, as had been done in preceding years. This bulletin contains statistics of Industrial Schools…