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This collection of articles selected from professional journals including History of Education, Educational Studies, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Historical Studies in Education, History of Education Review, Rural Sociology and others describes dangers children have encountered in public and private schools from the early nineteenth century to the end of World War II. Initial topics include an analysis of the legal aspects of dangerous schools, followed by articles on sporting violence in Australia from 1850 to 1914, the abuse of Irish children in charter schools and Magdalen asylums, illicit sexuality in Ontario schools, child abuse scandals in Catholic schools, sexual harassment in the early twentieth century in Ontario, abusive Scottish insular teachers, corporal punishment in inter-war Britain, the negative influence of eugenics on British education from 1900 to 1939, several decades of hazing at the US university, universities as dangers places, and case studies of professional misconduct. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
