Opening The Nursery Door

ISBN-13: 9780415148986 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 242 str.

Mary Hilton; Morag Styles; Victor Watson

Opis

Inspired by the library archive of an 18th century nursery teacher, this is a collection of essays on the nature of childhood, learning, and the role of women educators, in English cultural life from the 1700s onwards.

Recenzje

'The quality of the chapters is uniformly high, and they are wide-ranging, interesting and informative. This is a very successful book, packed with insight...' - The National Literacy Trust's 1997 International Annotated Bibliography of Books on Literacy.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Mary Hilton; PART I Handmade Worlds; Chapter 2 Child's Play or Finding the Ephemera of Home, Shirley Brice Heath; Chapter 3 Jane Johnson: A Very Pretty Story to Tell Children, Victor Watson; Chapter 4 Women Teaching Reading to Poor Children in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Margaret Spufford; PART II 'Some Easy Pleasant Book'; Chapter 5 Samuel Richardson's Aesop[David Whitley; Chapter 6 John Newbery and Tom Telescope, John Rowe Townsend; PART III Women Writing for Children; Chapter 7 ‘The Cursed Barbauld Crew’, Norma Clarke; Chapter 8 Fairy Tales and Their Early Opponents, Nicholas Tucker; Chapter 9 In the Absence of Mrs Leicester, Janet Bottoms; Chapter 10 From the Front Line, Jan Mark; Chapter 11 ‘Of the Spontaneous Kind’?, Morag Styles; PART IV Learning to Read in School; Chapter 12 The Domestic and the Official Curriculum in Nineteenth-Century England, David Vincent; Chapter 13 ‘I Knew a Duck’, Hilary Minns; Chapter 14 Criminals, Quadrupeds and Stitching up Girls or, Classes and Classrooms in the Ragged Schools, Julia Swindells; PART V ‘Configuring a World’; Chapter 15 Configuring a World, Heather Glen;

O autorze

Mary Hilton, Morag Styles, Victor Watson