Educational Theory

*The International Education Series* brings together the best Western writings upon educational subjects from ancient times to the First World War. The range of writings cover practical, theoretical and historical education. Taken together these historical and critical texts provide a theoretical framework for the practice of teaching. Many of these texts are very uncommon and are useful today to both historians of education, social history and educationalists. Originally published between 1890 and 1915, the series was devised and edited by William Torrey Harris (1835-1909), United States Commissioner of Education. Harris wrote on philosophy, and in particular Hegel and Hegelianism, as well as being a prominent educationalist. He was an active public lecturer, leader of the St Louis movement, editor of Webster's *Dictionary* and of America's first regular journal devoted to philosophy (*The Journal of Speculative Philosophy*, 1867-93), and author of some 500 articles. For this important series, Harris provided introductions, analyses and commentaries to the individual volumes. The second collection in the series, *Educational Theory*, selects the works of theoretical and practical advice for educational practitioners. The texts range from broad programmes of educational reform to step by step lesson plans, taking in guides to the best methods of teaching the different subjects, outlines for improvement in teaching in public schools, and studies of the role of education in industry. Many of the featured authors played a crucial role in modernizing educational methods. -includes now rare volumes from the turn of the century series, *International Education* -early twentieth-century ideas on the theory and practice of education -most important classic American series on education made available together for the first time