1st Edition

Society and Education in England Since 1800

Edited By P W Musgrave Copyright 1968
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published 1968, the book examines the ways in which the definitions of education held by different groups with power have changed since 1800 and traces which social institutions exercised the preponderant influence on the growth of the English educational system during the seminal period in which the state system was founded and grew to its present position. Especial attention is... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Birth of the Educational System; Chapter 3 Towards One System; Chapter 4 The Expansion of the System; Chapter 5 Towards a Fair System; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

Biography

P. W. Musgrave

"A comprehensive approach to the study of education and society…it should soon figure on many reading lists…" Times Literary Supplement