Urban Education in the 19th Century - Proceedings of 1976 Annual Conference of History of Education

List of contents

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

About the author

D.A. Reeder

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: D.A. Reeder
• Assisted by: D. A. Reeder (Editor), D.A. Reeder (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780815376187
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7618-7
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Urban Education; Routledge Library Editions: Urban Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Moral and social purpose of education, Urban communities, Moral & social purpose of education