Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation
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Anik Meunier et Jean-François Piché, De l’idée à l’action, une histoire du syndicalisme enseignant
Marc Depaepe and Lieven D’hulst, with Maartje Theuninck, An Educational Pilgrimage to the United States. Travel Diary of Raymond Buyse, 1922
Daniel A. Clark, Creating the College Man: American Mass Magazines and Middle-Class Manhood, 1890-1915
Di Gardiner, Tom O’Donaghue & Marnie O’Neill, Constructing the Field of Education as a Liberal Art and as Teacher Preparation at Five Western Australian Universities: An Historical Analysis
“The Ayn Rand School for Tots”: John Dewey, Maria Montessori, and Objectivist Educational Philosophy during the Postwar Years
Objectivism, the libertarian philosophy established by Ayn Rand during the postwar years, has attracted a great deal of attention from philosophers, political scientists, economists, and English professors alike in recent years, but it hasn’t received much notice from historians with an interest in education. This article will address that problem by discussing how Rand and her followers established a philosophy of education during the 1960s and 1970s that was based, in part, on vilifying the so-called collectivist ideas of John Dewey and lionizing the so-called individualist ideas of Maria Montessori. Unfortunately, the narrative that emerged during this time seriously misrepresented the ideas of both Dewey and Montessori, resulting in a somewhat distorted view of both educators