W B Stephens

Education in Britain, 1750-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

This concise study covers the development of education throughout Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Great War: a period in which urbanization, industrialization and population growth posed huge social and political problems, and education became one of the fiercest areas of conflict in society.

Produktdetails

• Social History in Perspective
• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-60512-7
• 1998
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 15mm x 141mm x 217mm
• Gewicht: 307g
• ISBN-13: 9780333605127
• ISBN-10: 0333605128
• Artikelnr.: 25448253

Autorenporträt

W.B. STEPHENS is Honorary Research Fellow at University College, London. Until retirement he was Reader in the University of Leeds, where he was a sometime Dean of the Faculty of Education and a Curator of the University's Museum of Education.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- List of Tables.- Elementary Education to the 1860s.- School Attendance and Literacy: 1750 to the Later Nineteenth Century.- Secondary and Higher Education to the 1860s.- Education, Science and Industrialization, 1750s 1850s.- Elementary Education from the 1860s to 1914.- Secondary and Higher Education from the 1860s to 1914.- Science, Technology, Education and the Economy from the 1850s to 1914.- The Growth of a Literate Culture.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.