Education

This section provides information about collections from other institutions related to Education. 

The International Bureau of Education was established in 1925, as a private, non-governmental organization, by leading Swiss educators, to provide intellectual leadership and to promote international cooperation in education. It was born from the intellectual discourse of leading thinkers and architects of the progressive education movement known as the New Education, including Edouard Claparède and Adolphe Ferrière. UNESCO's IBE Digital Historical Collections contain historical archives, textbooks, and photographs. 

The Archive Collection of the British and Foreign School Society (BFSS) is one of the most important collections in the world on 19th-century elementary education and teacher training. Materials include the formation of the BFSS, minute books from 1808, financial documents, establishment and progress of the British Schools, Newcastle Commission returns from British Schools, 19th-century schools (including overseas) correspondence, BFSS charities and funds, annual reports, and the Educational Record 1848-1929.  BFSS College papers, including annual reports, student application forms and references, registers, documents on course details, alumni associations, student magazines, and photographs. 

The Forum on Education Abroad maintains a Special Collection of education abroad historical material within the Archives and Special Collections Department of Dickinson College, with financial support from the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) and the AIFS Foundation. The purpose of the Special Collection is to collect, preserve, and make available for research primary and secondary materials relating to the history and development of U.S. education abroad from its beginnings until and including the 1990s. The AIFS/AIFS Foundation Education Abroad Special Collection includes: materials relating to the development of education abroad as a professional field within U.S. higher education; materials relating to specific education abroad programs of historical importance, such as those established early in the history of the field, or the first programs established in a particular geographic location or programs related to a particular academic discipline or topic; and correspondence, photographs, training materials, meeting agendas and minutes, or other materials that provide meaningful and significant information about any aspect of the history and development of U.S. education abroad.