John Wesley and the Education of Children: Gender, Class and Piety

ISBN-13: 9780367890360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

Linda A. Ryan

Opis

This book sets out Wesley’s thinking and practice concerning child-rearing and education, particularly in relation to gender and class, in its broader eighteenth-century social and cultural context. This study demonstrates that the political, religious, and ideological backdrop to Wesley’s work was neither static or consistent.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1 Child-rearing and Education in Eighteenth-century England;  2 Influences that helped shape John Wesley’s Educational Thinking;  3 The Implementation of John Wesley’s Thinking on Education;  4 Educating Pauper Children: 1723-1780;  5 Kingswood Boarding School: 1746-1780; 6 Growing Tension between Education and Evangelism: 1760-1791;  7 Educating Pauper Children after 1780;  Conclusion

O autorze

Linda A. Ryan is a mature researcher with an interest in early Methodism, and more specifically eighteenth-century attitudes to children, education and gender. She has previously published articles in Wesley & Methodist Studies and the Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture.