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Title: Isaac Leon Kandel Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1915-1966
Collection Number: 84032
Creator:
Kandel, I. L. (Isaac Leon), 1881-1965
Extent:
9 manuscript boxes
(3.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Contains correspondence, writings and background materials relating to international education and Kandel's career as a leading
comparative and international educator
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
Primarily in English,
with small portions of Spanish,
Italian,
German, and
French
Collection open for research.
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[Identification of item], Isaac Leon Kandel papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1984 with an additional increment in 1985.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
| 1881 | Born, Romania |
| 1905 | M.A., University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| 1907 | Travelled to Germany to study with the Herbartian educational theorist Wilhelm Rein at the University of Jena |
| 1908 | Moved to the U.S., New York |
| 1909-1913 | Lecturer at the Teachers' College, Columbia University |
| Assistant editor of Cyclopedia of Education | |
| 1910 | PhD, Teachers College, Columbia University, dissertation titled: "The Training of Elementary School Teachers in Germany" |
| 1914-1923 | Researcher, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching |
| 1923-1946 | Chair, History of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University |
| 1924-1944 | Editor of Educational Yearbook |
| 1930 | Author, History of Secondary Education |
| 1933 | Author, Comparative Education |
| 1935 | Author, The Making of Nazis |
| 1937 | Awarded a Doctor of Letters degree by University of Melbourne, Australia and the Legion of Honor Chevalier (Knight) by the French government |
| 1937-1946 | Member of the United States National Committee on Intellectual Cooperation |
| 1938 | Author, Conflicting Theories of Education |
| 1946 | Awarded a Doctor of Laws degree by the University of North Carolina |
| 1946-1953 | Editor, School and Society |
| 1946-1962 | Writer, editor and consultant for the United Nations and UNESCO |
| 1946 | Part of the United States educational mission to Japan |
| 1948 | Author, Education in an Era of Transition |
| 1948-1950 | First professor of American Studies at Manchester University |
| 1951 | Author, Raising the School-leaving Age, series of six books issued by UNESCO |
| 1955 | Author, The New Era in Education: a Comparative Study |
| 1965 | Died in Geneva, Switzerland |
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains correspondence, writings and background materials relating to international education and Kandel's career as a leading
comparative and international educator.
The
Biographical file and
Correspondence series document Kandels work as a Professor and the chair of History of Education at the Teachers' College, Columbia University,
a researcher for the Carnegie Foundation, an editor of
School and Society and Educational Yearbook, as well as a writer, editor andConsultant for the United Nations and UNESCO. The
Writings series provides further details of Kandel's contributions to the general field of education and to the specialized field
of comparative and international education.
Education.
International education.