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Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of
education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex
web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to
young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the
definition of education exposes the shaky ground on which some
historical assumptions rest. For example, studying conventional
pedagogical texts and practices used for girls' home education
alongside evidence gleaned from women's diaries and letters
suggests domestic settings were the loci for far more rigorous
intellectual training than has previously been acknowledged.
Contributors cast a wide net, engaging with debates between private
and public education, the educational agenda of Hannah More, women
schoolteachers, the role of diplomats in educating boys embarked on
the Grand Tour, English Jesuit education, eighteenth-century print
culture and education in Ireland, the role of the print trades in
the use of teaching aids in early nineteenth-century infant school
classrooms, and the rhetoric and reality of children's book use.
Taken together, the essays are an inspiring foray into the rich
variety of educational activities in Britain, the multitude of
cultural and social contexts in which young people were educated,
and the extent of the differences between principle and practice
throughout the period.
Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of
education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex
web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to
young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the
definition of education exposes the shaky ground on which some
historical assumptions rest. For example, studying conventional
pedagogical texts and practices used for girls' home education
alongside evidence gleaned from women's diaries and letters
suggests domestic settings were the loci for far more rigorous
intellectual training than has previously been acknowledged.
Contributors cast a wide net, engaging with debates between private
and public education, the educational agenda of Hannah More, women
schoolteachers, the role of diplomats in educating boys embarked on
the Grand Tour, English Jesuit education, eighteenth-century print
culture and education in Ireland, the role of the print trades in
the use of teaching aids in early nineteenth-century infant school
classrooms, and the rhetoric and reality of children's book use.
Taken together, the essays are an inspiring foray into the rich
variety of educational activities in Britain, the multitude of
cultural and social contexts in which young people were educated,
and the extent of the differences between principle and practice
throughout the period.
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