History of Education Review: Volume 46 Issue 2
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The official journal of the Australian and New Zealand History of Education SocietyTable of contents - Special Issue: Mass schooling and public health
Guest Editors: Helen Proctor, Kellie Burns
Historicizing health and education: Investigations of the eyesight of school children in the early nineteenth century
Patrice MilewskiThe 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
Rima D. AppleThe 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)
Heloísa Helena Pimenta Rocha, Henrique Mendonça da SilvaThe 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
Nelleke BakkerThe 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)
Marta Brunelli, Juri MedaThe 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
Anna LarssonThe 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)
Aida Terron, Josep M. Comelles, Enrique Perdiguero-GilThe 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
Deana Leahy, Dawn Penney, Rosie WelchPublic 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…
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0819-8691e-ISSN:
2054-5649ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof Helen Proctor
- Prof Julie McLeod
- Dr Tamson Pietsch