Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer

ISBN-13: 9781138356665 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Valerie Gray

Opis

Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material.

Spis treści

Contents: Charles Knight. A highly useful man; Professional apprenticeship: Windsor, 1812-23; Knight and the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge: a special relationship (1827-46); Knight the populariser - education and literacy; Knight the populariser - political economy; Knight - the pioneer publisher; Retrospect and conclusion; Bibliography; Appendices; Index.

O autorze

Valerie Gray