Describes the educational background of Edmund Wilson, the early twentieth century critic and journalist. Looks at his experiences at Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Princeton University, New Jersey, and the professors and teachers who influenced his life and pedagogical theories. (CAM)

Reviews the role that philanthropic foundations have played in educational support, research, and reform since 1900. (GC)

Presents the text of a talk by Shields, who represented Leta Hollingworth (1886-1939), at the 1983 American Psychological Association convention where scholars lectured as a figure from the past on Heidbreder's seven psychologies. Reviews psychological research at Teachers College and Columbia University from 1911 through the 1920s and evaluates…

U.S. and European prison reformers influenced correctional education in Ontario in several areas: support for the common school movement, administrative practices, religious instruction, literacy training, and vocational programs. (SK)

Sketches the history of the expansion of multinational advertising agencies. Then examines the growth, characteristics, and consequences of these agencies in an important region of the developing world, Latin America. (PD)

Writes in memory of Carl R. Rogers. Conveys a sense of the spirit of Rogers' thinking and the kind of person he was, both in his own eyes and in the experience of those who knew him personally. Concludes with a discussion of how Rogers'"way of being" has influenced the writer's own personal and professional development. (Author/KS)

The author describes the history, theories, and methods of the German institution called the Bauhaus, which he considers to be the basic influence on American studio art education in the last 50 years. (Author/SJL)

The visits of three North American adult educators to Australia in the 1960s illuminated concerns of university adult education and highlighted two trends begun then: increasing diversification of overseas influences on Australian adult education and more vigorous growth of distinctly Australian thought and practice. (SK)

During the final years of the nineteenth century, among the leaders of the American Froebelian kindergarten movement were three dual-career couples who exemplified the concept of egalitarian marriage: John Kraus and Maria Kraus-Boelte, William and Eudora Hailmann, and Ada Morean Hughes and John Hughes. This paper focuses on the way these six…

Changes in sex-related symbolism during the late 1700s are traced and gender is analyzed as a cultural, historical construct. The word "virtue" became gender bound so that public virtues, such as heroism, were inherently masculine. Feminine virtues were things such as a mother passively donating her sons to the revolution. (VM)

Until the 1950s, Canadian economists demonstrated little concern about the relationship between education and society's economic performance. In the 1960s, the neoclassical school became preoccupied with education's investment potential and, with the Keynsians, formed a consensus on greatly increased expenditures. In the 1970s, this judgment was…

By examining 87 futuristic articles published between 1919 and 1961 in American library or related journals, and 6 professional monographs within the same time span, the accuracy of forecasting library futures is assessed. The effects of war, the economy, and technology on librarians' ideas of the future are discussed, and trends in predictions…

Discusses the importance of the first annual meeting of the American Association of Junior Colleges (AAJC) in 1920 to the junior college movement. Indicates that, besides marking the beginning of the AAJC, the conference was a noted break from the narrowly academic view of the junior college prevalent in higher education. (MAB)

Discusses contributions to educational computing of Seymour Papert, LOGO creator; Irwin Hoffman, first school-based computer education program developer; Dorothy Deringer, National Science Foundation's monitor and supporter of educational computing projects; Sherwin Steffin, educational software company vice-president; and Jessie Muse, National…