Mass education and the limits of state building : c. 1870-1930
The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012
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| Schlagworte: | Education and state Citizenship Intellectual life-History Electronic books Bildungswesen Bildungspolitik Geschichte 1870-1930 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (X, 325 S.) |
| Zusammenfassung: | The first comparative study of the spread of mass education around the world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this unique new book uses a bottom-up focus and demonstrates, to an extent not appreciated hitherto, the gulf between the intentions of the government and the reality on the ground. Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Note on Timelines and Glossaries -- General Introduction -- Part I The British Isles -- Introduction -- 1 Citizenship, Moral Education and the English Elementary School -- 2 Elite Education and the Development of Mass Elementary Schooling in England, 1870-1930 -- 3 Faith and Nationhood: Church, State and the Provision of Schooling in Ireland, 1870-1930 -- Part II Continental Europe -- Introduction -- 4 From the ' Zwergschule ' (One-Room Schoolhouse) to the Comprehensive School: German Elementary Schools in Imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870-1930 -- 5 'Schools Are Society's Salvation': The State and Mass Education in France, 1870-1930 -- 6 Russia and the Soviet Union: Schooling, Citizenship and the Reach of the State, 1870-1945 -- Part III The Wider World -- Introduction -- 7 'To Become GOOD MEMBERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY and PATRIOTIC AMERICANS': Mass Education in the United States, 1870-1930 -- 8 Primary Education and the Construction of Citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930: Progress and Tensions -- 9 The Role of Mass Education in Nation-Building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930 -- Part IV The Colonial Empires -- Introduction -- 10 'Education for Every Son and Daughter of South Africa': Race, Class and the Compulsory Education Debate in the Cape Colony -- 11 India's Trials with Citizenship, Modernisation and Nationhood -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index. - Description based on print version record |
| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource (X, 325 S.) |
| ISBN: | 9780230370210 0230370217 9781280583179 1280583177 9780230273504 0230273505 |