1st Edition
The Education of the People A History of Primary Education in England and Wales in the Nineteenth Century
By Mary Sturt
Copyright 1967
462 Pages
by
Routledge
462 Pages
by
Routledge
464 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1967.This book illustrates how, during the nineteenth century, the idea grew up that the provision of universal education was one of the functions of the state. The volume is also a history of that period of education, discussing the main events and describing the actual conditions of the schools.
One: The importance of subordination; Two: The Humanitarians; Three: The challenge of pauperism; Four: The beginnings of state control; Five: First acts of the Committee of Council; Six: The early schools; Seven: The early training colleges; Eight: The progress of the schools; Nine: The Minutes of 1846; Ten: Results of the Minutes of 1846; Eleven: Schools and training colleges in the 1850s; Twelve: The Newcastle Commission; Thirteen: The effects of the Revised Code 1; Fourteen: The Act of 1870; Fifteen: The work of the School Boards; Sixteen: From the 1870 Act to the Cross Commission; Seventeen: The Cross Commission; Eighteen: Secondary Education; Nineteen: The defeat of the School Boards
Biography
Mary Sturt
