The Educational Innovators, 1750-1967: 2 Volume Set

by W. Stewart, Oren Abeles

Overview

This two-volume study of progressive education covers the period between 1750 and 1967. The first thoroughly comprehensive general survey of progressive education in England, it is a work of scholarship unequalled since its original publication in 1967. At this time of continual upheaval in educational practice, the work shows educational innovations not to be just a modern phenomenon but one with historical roots going back to the eighteenth century. The first volume traces the many currents of thought on education during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examining the state of education in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, the volume takes into account the social and economic changes of the nineteenth century and looks at the role of the school as agent of historical reform. As well as documenting the writings of theorists, teachers, social reformers, philanthropists and continental educational thinkers, the study deals with the contributions made by a number of British pioneers and innovative educational institutions which hitherto had not received full recognition. Volume two reviews three waves of progressive schools, from pre World War I up to the outbreak of World War II, before following the changing position of the progressive schools up to 1967. Although primarily concerned with England, the author discusses some progressive international movements, including key European developments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333804278
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/22/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	916
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.99(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

W.A.C. STEWART (1915-1997) formerly a school teacher, became the first Professor of Education at the University of Keele in 1950 and Vice-Chancellor in 1967. He wrote numerous books and articles on education and sociology, such as Quakers and Education as seen in their Schools in England, Progressives and Radicals in English Education, 1750-1970 (Macmillan, 1972) and An Introduction to the Sociology of Education (with Karl Mannheim) (RKP, 1962).

W.P.McCANN was Professor of Education at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He co-authored (with Frank Bealey and J. Blondel) Constituency Politics: A Study of Newcastle-under-Lyme (New York: Free Press, 1965).

Table of Contents

VOLUME 1: The Educational Innovators, 1750-1880 ; W.A.C.Stewart & W.P.McCann (1967) xvi, 370pp + 36 illustrations inc. index PART ONE: 1750-1850: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: EXPERIMENT AND ENLIGHTENMENT Early Experiments: W.Gilpin & D.Manson Rousseau and English Education in the Late Eighteenth Century David Williams and the Laurence Street Academy THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND AFTER Robert Owen and the New Lanark Schools The Followers of Owen: Working-class Educators and Utopians The Hills and Hazelwood School King's Somborne School CONTINENTAL INFLUENCES Pestalozzi, Fellenberg, and English Education Lady Byron, E.T.Craig and Ealing Grove School Dr. Charles Mayo and Cheam School, 1826-46 Kay-Shuttleworth and the Continental Reformers SOME GENERAL THEMES Labour and Education, 1780-1850 Rewards and Punishments, 1780-1850 The Teaching of Young Children: James Buchanan and Samuel Wilderspin EPILOGUE: 1750-1850 PART TWO: 1850-1880 THE EDUCATION MADNESS New Influences and the Intelligentsia Henry Morley's School Johannes Ronge and the Humanistic Schools Barbara Bodichon's School The International School: Free Trade and Education William Ellis and the Birkbeck Schools EPILOGUE: 1850-1880 Index VOLUME 2 The Educational Innovators: Progressive Schools, 1881-1967 ; W.A.C. Stewart (1968) xvi, 392pp + 34 illustrations inc. index and bibliography PART ONE: DATA The Growth of Schools 1889-1898 Merging into Educational Radicalism 1898-1918 New Schools and Europe 1890-1918 Preface to the Post-War Surgence The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: Beginnings of the New Psychology The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: The Wave of New Psychology The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: The New Communities: Dartington and Beacon Hill The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy The Slackening Tide: Bryanston The Slackening Tide: The Thirties and Gordonstown The Second World War: Wennington The International Movement in Progressive Education PART TWO: THREE HEADMASTERS Cecil Reddie and Abbotsholme J.H. Badley and Bedales A.S. Neill and Summerhill PART THREE: SOME FACTS, FIGURES AND INTERPRETATIONS PART FOUR: CONCLUSION Bibliography Index