Introductions to Renaissance education include William Harrison Woodward, Studies in Education During the Age of the Renaissance, 1400–1600 (1906, reprinted 1967), Vittorino da Feltre and other Humanist Educators (1897, reprinted 1970), and Desiderius Erasmus Concerning the Aim and Method of Education (1904, reprinted 1971). More information on the topic can be found in David Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England (1980). Important works on the Reformation and Counter-Reformation are John Lawson, Mediaeval Education and the Reformation (1967); Frederick Eby, Early Protestant Educators: The Educational Writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Leaders of Protestant Thought (1931, reprinted 1971); Gerald Strauss, Luther’s House of Learning (1978); and Allan P. Farrell, The Jesuit Code of Liberal Education (1938). European education in the 17th and 18th centuries
The general histories cited at the beginning of this bibliography offer good accounts of educational developments of the 17th and 18th centuries. For the 17th century, a useful work is John William Adamson, Pioneers of Modern Education 1600–1700 (1905, reissued 1972). Major theorists are treated in Jean Piaget, “Introduction,” in John Amos Comenius, Selections (1957), published by UNESCO; John W. Yolton, John Locke & Education (1971); Michael Mooney, Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric (1985); H.C. Barnard, The French Tradition in Education: Ramus to Mme. Necker de Saussure (1922, reprinted 1970); William Boyd, The Educational Theory of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1911, reissued 1963); Allan Bloom, “Introduction,” in his edition of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile: or, On Education (1979); and J.J. Chambliss, Educational Theory as Theory of Conduct: From Aristotle to Dewey (1987). Introductions to the 18th century include Nicholas Hans, New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century (1951, reprinted 1966); F. De La Fontainerie (ed.), French Liberalism and Education in the Eighteenth Century: The Writings of La Chalotais, Turgot, Diderot, and Condorcet on National Education (1932, reprinted 1971); and L.W.B. Brockliss, French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1987). European influence on colonial developments is discussed in Luís Martín and Jo Ann Geurin Pettus (eds.), Scholars and Schools in Colonial Peru (1973); and Joseph Maier and Richard W. Weatherhead, The Latin American University (1979). Western education in the 19th century
This period is treated in the general histories cited above. The American Journal of Education (1856–82), ed. by Henry Barnard, remains a valuable source for European and U.S. educational developments. An analysis of Western educational theories is provided in Kate Silber, Pestalozzi: The Man and His Work, 3rd ed. (1973); and John Angus MacVannel, The Educational Theories of Herbart and Froebel (1905, reissued 1972). Works on individual countries include Friedrich Paulsen, German Education Past and Present (1908, reprinted 1976; originally published in German, 1906), a classic analysis; John William Adamson, English Education, 1789–1902 (1930, reprinted 1964); Patrick L. Alston, Education and the State in Tsarist Russia (1969); Ben Eklof, Russian Peasant Schools (1986); Bruce Curtis, Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836–1871 (1988); A.G. Austin, Australian Education, 1788–1900, 2nd ed. (1965); and A.G. Butchers, Young New Zealand: A History of the Early Contact of the Maori Race with the European, and of the Establishment of a National System of Education for Both Races (1929). The spread of Western influences to Asia is studied in Makoto Aso and Ikuo Amano, Education and Japan’s Modernization (1972, reissued 1983); Syed Nurullah and J.P. Naik, A History of Education in India During the British Period, 2nd rev. ed. (1951, reissued 1968); S.N. Mukerji, History of Education in India: Modern Period, 6th ed. (1974); and Bhagwan Dayal Srivastava, The Development of Modern Indian Education, rev. ed. (1963). Education in the 20th century
Surveys of 20th-century practices and theories are found in the general histories listed at the beginning of this bibliography. The topic is discussed in Robin Barrow and Geoffrey Milburn, A Critical Dictionary of Educational Concepts (1986); T. Neville Postlethwaite (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Comparative Education and National Systems of Education (1988); J. Cameron et al. (eds.), International Handbook of Educational Systems, 3 vol. (1983–84); Harold E. Mitzel (ed.), Encyclopedia of Educational Research, 5th ed., 4 vol. (1982); Torsten Husén and T. Neville Postlethwaite (eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies, 10 vol. (1985), with supplementary volumes, the first of which appeared in 1989; and George Thomas Kurian (ed.), World Education Encyclopedia, 3 vol. (1988).
Major trends and practical problems of education across the world are discussed in Thomas F. Green, The Activities of Teaching (1971); Gilbert R. Austin, Early Childhood Education: An International Perspective (1976); Isabelle Deblé, The School Education of Girls: An International Comparative Study on School Wastage Among Girls and Boys at the First and Second Levels of Education (1980); Dietmar Rothermund and John Simon (eds.), Education and the Integration of Ethnic Minorities (1986); James A. Banks and James Lynch (eds.), Multicultural Education in Western Societies (1986); Edmund J. King, Other Schools and Ours, 5th ed. (1979); J.R. Hough (ed.), Educational Policy: An International Survey (1984); Robert F. Lawson (ed.), Changing Patterns of Secondary Education: An International Comparison (1987); Daniel C. Levy (ed.), Private Education: Studies in Choice and Public Policy (1986); Alexander N. Charters et al., Comparing Adult Education Worldwide (1981); Nell P. Eurich, Systems of Higher Education in Twelve Countries (1981); Burton R. Clark, The Higher Education System: Academic Organization in Cross-National Perspective (1983); and Philip H. Coombs, The World Crisis in Education: The View from the Eighties (1985).
Studies of various contemporary educational philosophies and trends include John Dewey, Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1916, reprinted 1966); Harry S. Broudy, Building a Philosophy of Education, 2nd ed. (1961, reprinted 1977), and The Uses of Schooling (1988); Paul H. Hirst, Knowledge and the Curriculum: A Collection of Philosophical Papers (1974); Merle Curti, The Social Ideas of American Educators (1935, reprinted 1978); Madan Sarup, Marxism and Education (1978); Jonas F. Soltis (ed.), Philosophy and Education (1981); and Ernest Stabler, Founders: Innovators in Education, 1830–1980 (1986).