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In life, as in fiction, boarding schools were part of the backbone of the empire, educating its military officers, senior clerics, lawyers, and administrators. They used the means that were popular for the time.
Dec 9, 2015 · The effects of the Great Depression on schools began in 1932, prompting budget cutbacks that led to reductions in school hours, increased class sizes, lower teacher salaries, and school...
- Lydia Koning
Nov 15, 2022 · In the twentieth century, states as ideologically diverse as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, where youth was ascribed a special vanguard role in political ideology, turned to boarding schools to produce ‘new men’ and ‘new women’ capable of rejuvenating society.
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The rise of social reconstructionism during the Great Depression years led conservatives to believe communists were infiltrating into American life through the schools. Even progressive education was frequently the target of conservatives seeking to label it as communistic.
History of Boarding School Education. The practice of sending children to other families or to schools so that they could learn together is of very long standing, recorded in classical literature and in UK records going back over a thousand years. In Europe, a practice developed by early mediaeval times of sending boys to be taught by literate ...
Aug 30, 2022 · Boarding schools have evolved from their simple beginnings of learning in the home of another to the multi-million- dollar enterprises they are today with sprawling campuses and state-of-the-art facilities, yet with similar goals of education remaining intact.
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The book makes the broader argument that framing boarding schools as a global phenomenon is imperative for a deepened understanding of the global and transnational networks that linked people as well as ideas and practices of education and childhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
