History of Education Review: Volume 35 Issue 2

Heil Mary: Magdalen asylums and moral regulation in Ireland

Brian Titley

Between the 1830s and 1990s, thousands of Irish women were incarcerated without due process in magdalen asylums for sexual behaviour that violated the Catholic Church’s moral…

Picturing the history of teacher education: photographs and methodology

Malcolm Vick, Fay Gasparini

Pictures are routinely identified as possible sources for researching history yet they are widely either neglected or underused. This article explores the use of pictorial…

The progressive credentials of Patrick Henry Pearse: a response to David Limond

Brendan Walsh

This article suggests that Patrick Pearse’s thought and work was rooted in the child‐centred movement of the late nineteenth‐century, was informed by the tenets of progressivism…

Rewriting the responsible parent

Wayen S. McGowan

This paper is derived from a larger study that explored how the rationality of freedom became inscribed in educational practices that shaped and reshaped limits that constitute…

The voices of the junior teachers: Exploitation or experience in South Australian schools 1931‐1945?

Anthony McGuire

This article argues that memoirs from within a humanistic sociological framework can provide a measure of balance sometimes lacking in accounts reliant entirely on contemporary…