ABSTRACT

Volume Three of three, this is a reprint of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s. Volume Three: The Modern West: Europe and the New World. The final volume covers the period of educational dissent, which became conspicuous in the early seventeenth century and reached crisis proportions in the late twentieth, when the dominant ideologies of progress and equality, generated at the beginning of the nineteenth century, were questioned for the first time on a widespread, popular scale.

chapter Chapter 1|34 pages

The Educational Heritage of the Modern West

chapter Chapter 2|36 pages

The Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century

chapter I|24 pages

The Catholic Conservative Tradition

chapter II|39 pages

The Protestant Initiative

chapter Chapter 10|47 pages

Science and Education: Towards a New Pedagogy

chapter Chapter 11|33 pages

The New Era in Education

chapter Chapter 12|32 pages

The New Era in Education

chapter II|32 pages

Progressivism in the United States

chapter Chapter 13|44 pages

The Rise of National Planning 1870–1939

chapter Chapter 14|38 pages

The Socialist Millennium: The Soviet Union 1917–1940