Mass education and the limits of state building, c.1870-1930

The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground. LAURENCE BROCKLISSFellow of Magdalen College, UK,andDirector of the OxfordCentre for the History of Childhood. His area of research is the history of education, science and medicine in Britain and France. His latest book, co-edited with Heather Montgomery, isChildhood and Violence in Western Tradition(2010). NICOLA SHELDON has degrees in history from Manchester and Oxford Universities and worked as a teacher of history and politics, and latterly as a head teacher, in sixth form colleges from 1987-2003. Since 2009, she has been working on the History in Education Project (www.history.ac.uk/historyineducation). From late 2011, she will be working for the Institute of Education, London. INDICE: Preface - List of Contributors - Note on Timelines and Glossaries - General Introduction - PART I: THE BRITISH ISLES - Introduction - Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School; 'S.Wright - 'Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870-1930; 'H.Ellis - 'Faith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870-1930; 'D.Raftery' & 'M.Relihan - 'PART II: CONTINENTAL EUROPE- Introduction - From the Zwergschule (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870b 1930; 'G.Budde - 'Schools are Society's Salvation': The State and Mass Education in France - 1870-1930; 'J.F.Chanet - 'Russia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870-1945; 'B.Eklof - 'PART III: THE WIDER WORLD - Introduction - 'To Become Good Members of Civil Society and Patriotic Americans': Mass Education in the United States, 1870-1930; 'E.Berg - 'Primary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930: Progress and Tensions; 'M.C.Soares de Gouvea' & 'A.F. Schueller - 'The Role of Mass Education in Nation Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930; 'N.Cicek - 'PART VI: THE COLONIAL EMPIRES - Introduction - 'Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa': Race, Class and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony; 'S. E. Duff - 'India's Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood; 'N.Kumar - 'Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27350-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés