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Teaching Methods
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Historical Education Archive: Textbooks, Teaching Methods, and World Events
This catalogue indexes 96 public-domain texts on education, teaching, and childhood learning, drawn from Project Gutenberg and organized into four overlapping categories. Rather than a random assortment, the collection traces a practical arc: Teaching Methods offers classroom manuals by figures such as Maria Montessori and John Dewey, while Historical Textbooks provides early language primers like A First Spanish Reader. Schools Learning covers institutional and extracurricular materials, from Sunday schools to biographies, and Educational Theory situates schooling within broader social and philosophical debates—Rousseau, Spencer, and Nietzsche appear here. To enter the collection, try the suggested reading paths: start with Dewey's The School and Society for progressive education, compare historical language texts, or trace pedagogical history through Compayré and Woody. Each record includes catalogue notes and target reader guidance.
96 public-domain works115 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Historical Textbooks
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Schools Learning
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Educational Theory
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Educational Theory
Martha Schofield, pioneer Negro ...
Authored by Authors: Evans, Matilda A., 'Martha Schofield, pioneer Negro ...' stands as a notable and significant work within the Educational Theory category. Matilda A. Evans, M.D., a graduate of Schofield School, writes a biography of Martha Schofield that blends historical review with dramatic, novelistic scenes. The text uses vernacular dialogue and vivid mob episodes to depict Reconstruction-era South Carolina, while the author's foreword frames Schofield's work as a moral crusade against ignorance and superstition. It serves as a vital entry point into the broader subjects represented in our archive.
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First course in biology — Text a...
In Histori...
Traveling publicity campaigns — ...
In Educati...
The meaning of a liberal educati...
In Teachin...
A history of Slavic studies in t...
In Educati...
A brief course in the teaching p...
In Teachin...
Early Quaker education in Pennsy...
In Educati...
The school and society — Story, ...
In Educati...
Schools of Gaul in the last cent...
In Schools...
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Begin with Teaching MethodsOpen a focused route to works connected with Teaching Methods.Explore Historical TextbooksCompare authors, source types and recurring questions within Historical Textbooks.Read through Schools LearningMove from introductory records to related works in Schools Learning.Browse Educational TheoryUse this theme as a starting point for nearby catalogue records in Educational Theory.
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