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For scholars wishing to follow up references to Michael Sadler's prolific output, two works are particularly useful: Higginson, J. H. (ed.).Selections from Michael Sadler. Liverpool, Dejall & Meyorre, 1980. (ISBN 090560301-X.) This book is now out of print, but copies exist in many university libraries across the world.
Pickering, O. S.Sir Michael Sadler: A Chronological Bibliography. Some 600 items are listed and the source where many of them may be found is indicated. This publication is available from the Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom.
For general biographies, consult
Grier, L.Achievement in Education: The Work of Michael Ernest Sadler, 1885–1935. London, Constable, 1952.
Sadler, M.Michael Ernest Sadler: Memoir by His Son. London, Constable, 1949.
Major works by Michael Sadler In chronological order
—— 1893University Extension, Past, Present and Future, by M. E. Sadler and J. H. Mackinder. London, Cassell.
Michael Sadler 1897–1902Special Reports on Educational Subjects. Issued by the Office of Special Inquiries and Reports under the direction of M. E. Sadler, these volumes contain informed papers by Michael Sadler and also illustrate his talent for finding colleagues with particular knowledge of other systems of education.
Michael Sadler Vol. 1 (1897).Education in England, Wales, Ireland, France, Germany, Denmark, Belgium.
Michael Sadler Vol. 2 (1898).Education in England and Wales; Physical Education; The Heuristic Method of Teaching; University Education in France.
Michael Sadler Vol. 3 (1898).National Organisation of Education in Switzerland; Secondary Education in Prussia, Baden and Sweden; Teaching of Modern Languages; Higher Commercial Education in France, Germany and Belgium.
Michael Sadler Vol. 4 (1901).Educational Systems of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland and the West Indies.
Michael Sadler Vol. 5 (1901).Educational Systems of Cape Colony, Natal, Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, Ceylon and Malta.
Michael Sadler Vol. 6 (1900).Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in British Secondary Education.
Michael Sadler Vol. 7 (1902).Rural Education in France.
Michael Sadler Vol. 8 (1902).Education in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary.
Michael Sadler Vol. 9 (1902).Education in Germany.
Michael Sadler Vol. 10 (1902).Education in the U.S.A. Part I.
Michael Sadler Vol. 11 (1902).Education in the U.S.A. Part II.
—— 1903–23 ‘Education in England’. (Monthly letters to the reviewIndian Education). London, Longman, Green & Co.
Michael Sadler 1903–06 Reports specially commissioned by local education authorities seeking to reorganize their education provision after the 1902 Education Act.
Michael Sadler 1907Continuation Schools in England and Elsewhere. Manchester University Press.
—— 1908Moral Instruction and Training in Schools. (Report of an international inquiry.) London, Longman, Green & Co.
Michael Sadler 1911Report on Education in Guernsey.
Michael Sadler 1919Report of the Commission on the University of Calcutta. 5 vols. Edited by Michael Sadler along with other members of the Commission of which he was President. Calcutta, Superintendent of Government Printing.
—— 1926Our Public Elementary Schools. London, Thornton Butterworth. ‘Introduction’ toThe Folk High Schools of Denmark (by Holger Begtrup, Hans Lund and Peter Manniche), pp. 5–8. London, Oxford University Press.
—— 1928Thomas Day: An English Disciple of Rousseau. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. (The Rede Lecture).
—— 1930 ‘The Outlook in Secondary Education’. Three lectures published inThe Teachers College Record (New York, Columbia University). ‘The Philosophy Underlying the System of Education in England’, Part 1. In: I. L. Kandel (ed.),Education Yearbook of the International Institute of the Teachers College, Columbia University.
—— 1934 Introduction toTagore at Shantinekatan, or A Survey of Dr Rabindranath Tagore's Educational Experiments at Shantinekatan. Bombay, H. Chaturvedi.
—— 1935 ‘Bibliography Relating to Indigenous Art in Tropical Africa’ and ‘Significance and Vitality in African Art’ — two articles contributed by Sadler toArts of West Africa (which he edited). London, Oxford University Press for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures.John Adams: A Lecture in His Memory. Published by the Oxford University Press for the London Institute of Education.
Michael Sadler 1936 ‘The Scholarship System in England to 1890’. Published inEssays on Examinations, for the International Institute Examinations Inquiry. In this volume, which he edited, Sadler also included ‘The Leaving Examination as Conducted in the Secondary Schools of Prussia’, reprinted from the Report of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education in 1895.
Michael Sadler 1941 ‘Juncta Disjuncta’. These five articles, reprinted inThe Times of London as an eight-page pamphlet, cover the following themes: ‘The English Public Schools’; ‘Future of the Private Schools’; ‘The Troubled Sea of the Mind’; ‘The Two-mindedness of England about Education’; and ‘A Ministry of Health and Education’. (The fourth articles is reprinted in Higginson, op. cit.,Selections from Michael Sadler. Liverpool, Dejall & Meyorre, 1980. pp. 187–89.)
Further reading
Draper, H. (ed.).Michael Sadler. University of Leeds Gallery, 1989. [A collection of six essays, with photographs, produced for an exhibition.]
Higginson, J. H. ‘Michael Sadler's Europe: Pointers for Today's Problems.’Journal of the Institute of Education (University of Hull, United Kingdom), No. 47, 1992.
— ‘Michael Sadler the Researcher.’Compare (Abingdon, United Kingdom), Vol. 12, No. 2, 1982, pp. 143–52.
Judges, A. V. ‘Michael Sadler's Monument.’King's College Education Papers (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom), Vol. 7, No. 4, 1953.
Mallinson, V. ‘In the Wake of Sir Michael Sadler.’Compare (Abingdon, United Kingdom), Vol. 11, No. 2, 1981, pp. 175–83.
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Higginson, J.H. Michael Ernest Sadler. Prospects 24, 455–469 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02195282
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