ABSTRACT
Originally published 1983.This book explores the nature of the social history of education. It examines what aspects of the history of education have been neglected and why.
The themes explored include the relationship between education and the emergence of social science, the reputations of educationists, expectations of higher education in the twentieth century, the use of education against poverty and education as policy and case study.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |134 pages
Nineteenth-century studies
chapter |18 pages
Aspects of neglect: the strange case of Victorian popular education
chapter |25 pages
Ideology and the factory child: attitudes to half-time education
chapter |21 pages
Reputation and the educational system: the case of Robert Owen
chapter |19 pages
Education, opinion and the 1870s
part |130 pages
Twentieth-century studies
chapter |22 pages
The liberal and the vocational
chapter |66 pages
Expectations of higher education: some historical pointers
chapter |18 pages
Policy as history and as theory
part |27 pages
Research and the history of education