Description
First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political, geographical, demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems, especially for child life, as well as to the realities of urban change
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Education and Urban Politics c. 1832-1885 3. Illiteracy and Schooling in the Provincial Towns, 1640-1870: A Comparative Approach 4. Education and the Social Geography of Nineteenth-Century Towns and Cities 5. Predicaments of City Children: Late-Victorian and Edwardian Perspectives on Education and Urban Society 6. Social Conflict and Urban Education in the Nineteenth Century: A Sociological Approach to Comparative Analysis 7. The History of Urban Education in the United States: Historians of Education and their Discontents Index
