Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes, 1860-1918

Informationen zum Autor J. S. Hurt Zusammenfassung This study, first published in 1979, analyses the attitude of various income and occupational groups to elementary schools both before and after the introduction of compulsory school attendance. It also discusses the efforts made by voluntary organisations to provide school meals, as well as examining the quality of the meals themselves, before the enactment of remedial legislation in the early twentieth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part One: The Working Classes and the 1870 Act ; 1. Our Future Masters 2. The Parental Consumer 3. The Coercion of the Parental Non-Consumer 4. School Boards for All; Part Two: The Schools and the Social Services ; 5. After Bread, Education 6. Cleansing the Augean Classrooms; Part Three: In and Out of the School ; 7. Schools, Parents and Children 8. Unwillingly to School; Notes; Index

Product details

• Authors: J. S. Hurt, Hurt J. S.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138216419
• ISBN: 978-1-138-21641-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education 1800-1926; Routledge Library Editions: Education 1800-1926
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History of Education, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Primary & middle schools, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary