Home Education in Historical Perspective

Domestic pedagogies in England and Wales, 1750-1900
Herausgeber: De Bellaigue, Christina

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection that sheds new light on the neglected history of home-schooling 1750-1900, and raises new questions about the objectives, form and content of education in the past and today. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Oxford Review of Education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781138643895
• ISBN-10: 1138643890
• Artikelnr.: 57054866

Autorenporträt

Christina de Bellaigue is Associate Professor in Modern History at Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Educating women: schooling and identity in England and France, 1800-1867 (2007) and has published articles on the history of female education, comparative education, women and professionalization, and the history of reading. She is currently working on a comparative study of social mobility in nineteenth-century Britain and France, and on the history of the PNEU in the British Empire.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Home education 1750-1900: domestic pedagogies in England and
Wales in historical perspective 1. The home education of girls in the
eighteenth-century novel: 'the pernicious effects of an improper education'
2. The pedagogy of conversation in the home: 'familiar conversation' as a
pedagogical tool in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England 3. Children's
literature, the home, and the debate on public versus private education,
c.1760-1845 4. Education in the working-class home: modes of learning as
revealed by nineteenth-century criminal records 5. Charlotte Mason, home
education and the Parents' National Educational Union in the late
nineteenth century 6. Self-education, class and gender in Edwardian
Britain: women in lower middle class families 7. Home education: then and
now