Education in Britain, 1750-1914

by W B Stephens

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333605127
Publisher:	C.J. Pike
Publication date:	01/18/1999
Series:	Social History in Perspective Series
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This is a book that will challenge both the intellect and the imagination. It should also appeal to a wide reading public and generate vigorous debate about the validity of many long-standing beliefs relating education to social and economic changes. I can best do justice to this book by quoting the words of a reviewer of some twenty years ago who concluded by saying: 'there is so much of value in this book. Just please read it. You will enjoy and profit from it.' - Clive Whitehead, Education Research and Perspectives