Michèle Cohen

Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution to the study of education in eighteenth-century England.

Through a detailed examination of contemporary methodologies, curricula, and practices this book brings together topics often treated separately: the education of boys and girls of the middling and the upper classes. Further, this study widens the scope of our definition of education to include the often-under-valued field of "accomplishments". Indeed, Cohen shows that accomplishments were a formal part of male and female education, with carefully theorised pedagogies, challenging the enduring perception that these subjects were superficial.

Subject specific chapters on Latin and geography pedagogies examine the relations between these subjects and the competitions which shaped and produced them. While Latin pedagogy dominated eighteenth-century education, geography, as a modern subject, had to develop a new normative pedagogy. Cohen shows that girls were not excluded from learning a science like geography, and that the contemporary perception of the inferiority of their education as opposed to that of boys was constructed as part of the classic vs. modern debate. Further, chapters on debates surrounding public and private education, the Grand Tour, and conversation show that pedagogy is the thread linking education, gender, social class and politics.

This book will be essential reading for historians of education, childhood and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805430360
• Artikelnr.: 67884612

Autorenporträt

MICHÈLE COHEN is emeritus Professor of Humanities, Richmond, American International University in London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Boys
Men and Education: The Public/Private Debate
and the Grand Tour 2. Girls
Women and Education: The Public/Private Debate
and 'Achievement'. 3. Latin 4. Geography 5. The Accomplishments 6. Conversation as a Pedagogy Conclusion