ABSTRACT

This collection of essays, edited by the distinguished historian of education Richard Aldrich, examines past, present and future relationships between the private and public dimensions of knowledge and education. Following the introduction, it is divided into three sections:

* key themes and turning points in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries
* examples from the twentieth century of non formal education with particular reference to girls and women, the care and education of pre-school children, sex education and family history
* an analysis of the private and public dimensions associated with globalization and international education and of examples drawn from Australia and the USA.

This book will become required reading not only in respect of contemporary and historical debates about private and public spheres in education, but also with reference to the wider themes of the creation, diffusion and ownership of knowledge.

part |65 pages

Part 1

chapter |19 pages

Changing the Boundaries

The Voluntary System, Private Popular Education and the Battle for Useful Knowledge, C.1830s–c. 1860s

chapter |22 pages

From Incorporation to Privatisation

Public and Private Secondary Education in Twentiethcentury England

part |78 pages

Part 2

chapter |26 pages

Round and Round the Mulberry Bush

The Balance of Public and Private in Early Education and Childcare in the Twentieth Century

chapter |20 pages

Birds, Bees and General Embarrassment

Sex Education in Britain, from Social Purity to Section 28

chapter |12 pages

Domestic Science

The Education of Girls at Home