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Nov 15, 2022 · This introductory chapter to the edited collection brings together detailed case studies of boarding schools, framing them as a global and transcultural phenomenon of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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 closings.
- Lydia Koning
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.
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.
Nov 15, 2022 · For boarding schools came to be entwined with, and played a role in, the epochal struggles that would reshape the world in a period defined by breakneck modernisation. This chapter provides an epilogue that looks across the preceding chapters and draws together key aspects the discussion.
- pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk
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.
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Nov 6, 2023 · The advent of progressive education theories began to influence their methodologies, moving away from strict, regimented curricula to a more holistic, student-centered approach. Boarding schools began to emphasize character development, leadership skills, personal growth, and academic achievement.
