This reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in history of education today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field, this lively and informative reader provides broad coverage of the field. With an emphasis on contemporary pieces that deal with issues relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Gary McCulloch also includes a specially written introduction that provides a much-needed context to role of history in the current educational climate.

Introduction: history of education

1

(12)

Gary McCulloch

PART I Higher education

13

(36)

Social control and intellectual excellence: Oxbridge and Edinburgh (1560-1983)

15

(18)

Lawrence Stone

Introduction: the functions of a university

15

(2)

The rise of the Oxbridge College tutorial system (1560-1660)

17

(5)

Edinburgh (1583-1660)

22

(1)

The fall of the Oxbridge College tutorial system (1670-1770)

22

(3)

The rise of Edinburgh (1660-1780)

25

(2)

The reform of Oxbridge (1770-1960)

27

(3)

The decline of discipline

30

(1)

Conclusion

31

(2)

Going to university in England between the wars: access and funding

33

(16)

Carol Dyhouse

Conclusion

45

(4)

PART II Informal agencies of education

49

(32)

On literacy in the Renaissance: review and reflections

51

(17)

Harvey J. Graff

Preface and overview

51

(3)

Trends and levels of literacy

54

(2)

Uses of literacy

56

(4)

The Renaissance's relationships to literacy

60

(3)

Literacies: alphabetic and visual

63

(5)

Schoolgirl to career girl: the city as educative space

68

(13)

Stephanie Spencer

The lure of the city

69

(2)

The career novel

71

(3)

The interviews

74

(7)

PART III Schooling, the State and local government

81

(56)

Family formation, schooling and the patriarchal state

83

(17)

Pavla Miller

Ian Davey

Church and state

83

(1)

Revisionist critique: industrialisation, urbanisation and wage labour

84

(1)

Feminist critique

85

(1)

Patriarchalist vs liberal political theory

86

(1)

Proletarianisation and the demise of the patriarchalist family economy

87

(1)

Industrialisation and the early proletarian family

88

(1)

The fully proletarian family

89

(1)

The proletarian family and the male breadwinner ideal

90

(1)

The middle class and the remaking of the separate spheres

91

(1)

Industrialisation and urbanisation revisited

92

(2)

Church and state revisited

94

(3)

Conclusion

97

(3)

Technical education and state formation in nineteenth-century England and France

100

(18)

Andy Green

Introduction

100

(1)

The underdevelopment of scientific and technical education in nineteenth-century England

100

(3)

Explanations of English underdevelopment

103

(4)

The development of French technical education

107

(2)

The development of technical education in England

109

(9)

To `blaise the trail for women to follow along': sex, gender and the politics of education on the London School Board (1870-1904)

118

(19)

Jane Martin

Introduction

118

(1)

Political candidature

119

(3)

The political culture of the London School Board

122

(4)

Women's careers as educational policy-makers

126

(1)

The schoolgirls' curriculum

126

(3)

Women teachers

129

(1)

School attendance

130

(2)

Conclusion

132

(5)

PART IV Education and social change and inequality

137

(24)

Can education change society?

139

(12)

Brian Simon

Schooling as an impediment to social mobility in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain

151

(10)

Roy Lowe

PART V Curriculum

161

(32)

Eton in India: the imperial diffusion of a Victorian educational ethic

163

(16)

J. A. Mangan

Catholic influence and the secondary school curriculum in Ireland, 1922-1962

179

(14)

Thomas A. O'Donoghue

General background

179

(2)

The Church's pursuit of its interests through the secondary school curriculum

181

(1)

An historical explanation for the Church's great influence over the secondary school curriculum

182

(4)

Changes since 1962

186

(7)

PART VI Teachers and pupils

193

(38)

The symbiotic embrace: American Indians, white educators and the school, 1820s-1920s

195

(19)

Michael C. Coleman

Classroom teachers and educational change 1876-1996

214

(17)

Philip Gardner

Three generations of teachers

214

(2)

Classroom and pedagogies

216

(2)

Practical autonomy

218

(2)

Post-war change

220

(3)

The second-generation legacy

223

(1)

New expectations

224

(3)

Interviewees

227

(4)

PART VII Education, work and the economy

231

(32)

Entering the world of work: the transition from youth to adulthood in modern European society

233

(13)

John Springhall

Politicians and economic panic

246

(17)

Alison Wolf

Introduction

246

(1)

The current panic: players and panaceas

246

(5)

Education and the CBI

251

(4)

An older panic: the findings of the Samuelson Report

255

(4)

The 1880s and the 1980s: why the same - and why so different?

259

(4)

PART VIII Education and national identity

263

(21)

Education in Wales: a historical perspective

265

(8)

Gareth Elwyn Jones

`There's no place like home': education and the making of national identity

273

(11)

Ian Grosvenor

Empire Day

273

(1)

Images in schools

274

(1)

Children and `race-thinking'

275

(1)

Attitudes to Europe

275

(1)

Living in an age of anxiety

276

(3)

`Home' and national identity

279

(2)

The contingency of identity

281

(2)

Educating the nation

283

(1)

Into the future: national identity and education

284

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