1st Edition

Urban Education in the 19th Century Proceedings in the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain

Edited By D.A. Reeder Copyright 1977
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19 th 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... Read more

Preface

1. Introduction, D.A. Reeder

2. Education and Urban Politics c. 1832-1885, D. Fraser

3. Illiteracy and Schooling in the Provincial Towns, 1640-1870: A Comparative Approach,

W.B. Stephens

4. Education and the Social Geography of Nineteenth-Century Towns and Cities, W.E. Marsden

5. Predicaments of City Children: Late-Victorian and Edwardian Perspectives on Education and Urban Society, D.A. Reeder

6. Social Conflict and Urban Education in the Nineteenth Century: A Sociological Approach to Comparative Analysis, D. Smith

7. The History of Urban Education in the United States: Historians of Education and their Discontents, Sol Cohn

Index

Biography

D.A. Reeder