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Samuel Wilderspin and the Infant School Movement book cover

1st Edition

Samuel Wilderspin and the Infant School Movement

By Phillip McCann, Francis A. Young Copyright 1982
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge
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Samuel Wilderspin became a household name in his own lifetime. Befriended by Dickens, lampooned by Cruikshank, his achievements discussed in Parliament, he was one of the best known educators of the 1830s and 1840s. However, Wilderspin’s consistent opposition to denominational education combined with his liberal and advanced views made him unpopular with the Establishment. Samuel Wilderspin’s... Read more

Illustrations;  Preface;  Abbreviations;  Introduction;  1. Early Influences: Nature and the New Church  2. Spitalfields Infant  3. The English Infant School: Buchanan and Owen  4. The English Infant School: Swedenborg and Pestalozzi  5. The Infant School Society  6. Educational Missionary: New Schools and Old  7. Wilderspin in Scotland  8. A National and International Reputation  9. Theory and Practice  10. The Infant School Movement in the 1830s: Crisis  11. The Infant School Movement: New Directions  12. The Liverpool Corporation Schools 1836-1837  13. National Education: Wilderspin versus the Evangelicals  14. The Dublin Model Schools 1837-1839  15. Years of Adversity  16. An Active Retirement;  Appendices;  Bibliography;  Index

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Phillip McCann, Francis A. Young

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