Introduction; Problematics and domains: thinking internationally about
urban education Ronald K. Goodenow; Part I. Research in National Contexts:
1. History, education and the city: a review of trends in Britain David A.
Reeder; 2. Education and America's cities Ronald D. Cohen and William J.
Reese; 3. The 'state' of the history of urban education in Australia Kerry
Wimshurst and Ian Davey; 4. Out of the shadow: retrieving the history of
urban education and urban childhood in Canada Neil Sutherland and Jean
Barman; Part II. Approaches to the Social History of Education: Ecology,
Choice and Culture: 5. Social stratification and nineteenth-century English
urban education William E. Marsden; 6. Compulsion, work and family: a case
study from nineteenth-century Birmingham Christine M. Heward; 7.
Understanding irregular school attendance: beyond the rural-urban dichotomy
Ian Davey and Kerry Wimshurst; 8. Redoing urban education history Barbara
Finkelstein; Part III. Needs and Opportunities: Policy and Theory
Considerations: 9. Theory in educational history: a middle ground Carl F.
Kaestle; 10. Approaches to urban education in the USA and UK David Coulby;
11. The uses and abuses of comparison in urban educational history David L.
Angus.
