Description
Book SynopsisProviding a wide-ranging, critical and up-to-date introduction to the history of education, this book explores its true meaning and value for education studies. With no assumption of prior knowledge, it considers key themes, individuals and situations in depth, highlighting the specific ways in which current educational practice is historically conditioned or, conversely, has been very different in other times and places and, by implication, might be different in the future. Chapters cover a diverse range of key topics, such as:
- the history of big ideas', such as liberal education
- the impact of state intervention on education
- the effects of imperialism
- the education of orators in ancient Rome
- the impact of Covid policies on British education
- the history of individual subjects, such as Geography
- the development of educational sectors
Accessible and engaging chapters model a range of critical approaches to the past
Table of Contents
Introduction: Some dry bones for an evolving discipline
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- Why study the history of education?
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- Liberal education
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- How concepts of femininity have influenced the education of girls and women in England, 1800 to 1988
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- Mass education
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- The transformation of scientific and geographical education in eighteenth century England
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- The Lax family of Staindrop and the making of a teaching dynasty
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- Quintilian’s educational impact
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- Imperialism and English schools: Education for, about, and because of empire
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- Documentary visions of the secondary modern school
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- Independent schools
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- The history of Special Education in England: Divisions, divergences, and coalitions
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- Adult to adult in loco parentis: The changing roles of the university from 1968 to 2018
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