Urban Education in the 19th Century
Proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain
Published on 2. January 2018
166 pages
978-1-351-23834-2 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political, geographical, demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems, especially for child life, as well as to the realities of urban change
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
File size
5,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-351-23834-2 (9781351238342)
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Urban Education in the 19th Century
Proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain
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Proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain
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Content
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Education and Urban Politics c. 1832-1885 3. Illiteracy and Schooling in the Provincial Towns, 1640-1870: A Comparative Approach 4. Education and the Social Geography of Nineteenth-Century Towns and Cities 5. Predicaments of City Children: Late-Victorian and Edwardian Perspectives on Education and Urban Society 6. Social Conflict and Urban Education in the Nineteenth Century: A Sociological Approach to Comparative Analysis 7. The History of Urban Education in the United States: Historians of Education and their Discontents Index
