History of Education Review: Volume 46 Issue 2

The connected histories of mass schooling and public health

Historicizing health and education: Investigations of the eyesight of school children in the early nineteenth century

The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical roots of the modern relationship between health and education. The author draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Georges…

School health is community health: school nursing in the early twentieth century in the USA

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evolution of school nursing in the USA in the early decades of the twentieth century, highlighting the linkages between schools and…

The dangers of infection: school medical inspection in Brazil (the 1910s)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the introduction of school medical inspection (SMI) in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil) during the 1910s, in a process aligned…

School medical inspection and the “healthy” child in the Netherlands, 1904-1970

The purpose of this paper is to explore the meaning of child health as applied by school doctors in the Netherlands and the way it was adapted to the rapidly improving standard of…

Gymnastics between school desks: An educational practice between hygiene requirements, healthcare and logistic inadequacies in Italian primary schools (1870-1970)

The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolution and use of the school desk in unified Italy as a multifunctional and highly efficient tool, which was required not only to…

Physical, emotional, and social illness: Changing problems for school health care in twentieth century Sweden

The purpose of this paper is to examine ideas and notions in the founding and development of the area of mental health services in school in Sweden, with special focus on school…

Schools and health education in Spain during the dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975)

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution and characteristics of health education in schools in Spain during the dictatorship of General Franco (1939-1975).

Schooling health: the critical contribution of curriculum in the 1980s

Public health authorities have long regarded schools as important sites for improving children and young people’s health. In Australia, and elsewhere, lessons on health have been…

Margaret Bailey: Pioneering Headmistress of Ascham School

The Ideal of Manliness: The Legacy of Thring’s Uppingham

Swallows, Amazons and Coots: A Reading of Arthur Ransome

National Tertiary Education Union: A Most Unlikely Union