Description
Book SynopsisThis project of the European Ethnological Research Centre is planned in 13 volumes. Their overall aim is to examine the interlocking strands of history, language and traditional culture, in their international setting, that go into the making of a national identity. Other volumes cover Scottish ethnology; farming and landscape; Scotland's buildings; boats and fishing; coast and sea; the food and the Scots; hearth and home: the culture of the dwelling house; crafts, trades and professions; transport and communications; the individual and community life in Scotland; oral literature and performance culture; institutions of Scotland: religious expression; and institutions of Scotland: the law.
Table of ContentsTraditions of Scottish education; church and state in Scottish education before 1872; education in Scotland, phianthopy and private enterprise; state: the governance of Scottish education 1872-2000; elementary institutions; secondary education; Scottish universities; further education institutions; special education; technical school and the teaching of science in Scotland; independent educational institutions; from ragged to residential school; Scottish teachers; the taught; women in education; Scottish literacy; curriculum and assessment; discipline in Scottish schools; education and the Gaelic language; missionaries to the middle classes; catholic education; "an instructed and intelligent people" - adult and continuing education in Scotland; informal education; Scottish education, social change and educational reform in the Second World War; society and schooling.
