Education as History
Interpreting nineteenth- and twentieth-century education
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-415-76181-9 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published 1983.This book explores the nature of the social history of education. It examines what aspects of the history of education have been neglected and why.
The themes explored include the relationship between education and the emergence of social science, the reputations of educationists, expectations of higher education in the twentieth century, the use of education against poverty and education as policy and case study.
The themes explored include the relationship between education and the emergence of social science, the reputations of educationists, expectations of higher education in the twentieth century, the use of education against poverty and education as policy and case study.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-76181-9 (9780415761819)
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Book
05/2007
1st Edition
Routledge
€431.53
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Person
Harold Silver
Content
Part 1 Nineteenth-century studies; Chapter 1 Aspects of neglect: the strange case of Victorian popular education; Chapter 2 Ideology and the factory child: attitudes to half-time education; Chapter 3 Reputation and the educational system: the case of Robert Owen; Chapter 4 Education, opinion and the 1870s; Chapter 5 Social science and educational reform: Britain and America in the late nineteenth century; Chapter 6 From social science to the social sciences: reordering higher education; Part 2 Twentieth-century studies; Chapter 7 The liberal and the vocational; Chapter 8 Expectations of higher education: some historical pointers; Chapter 9 Policy as history and as theory; Chapter 10 Education against poverty: interpreting British and American policies in the 1960s and 1970s; Part 3 Research and the history of education; Chapter 11 Comparative and cross-cultural history of education; Chapter 12 Case study and historical research;