The English Higher Grade Schools: A Lost Opportunity

ISBN-13: 9780713002201 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 272 str.

Meriel Vlaeminke;Meriel Vlaeminke

Opis

This study focuses on the English higher grade schools, a short-lived group of institutions that flourished at the end of the 19th century. They were a natural development of the successful board schools, which by the 1890s had educated a generation of children and awakened educational aspirations in a class of the population previously excluded from all but the most basic instruction. The higher grade schools formed a key part of a dynamically expanding ad hoc system of education favoured by England's ruling elite and fully expected to occupy an undisputed place in the network of institutions that would constitute secondary education in the 20th century.

The English higher grade schools formed a key part of an expanding 19th-century education system, but they threatened the vested interests of a powerful Establishment bent on reaffirming the status quo. The author analyzes the 1902 Education Act as a retrogressive move by which much was lost.

Spis treści

History of Education

"Meriel Vlaeminke"s fascinating study explores in depth the experience of the English higher grade schools, developed by many local School Boards towards the end of the nineteenth century.. a compelling account of the decline of the Higher grade schools.. A powerful contribution to the "might have been" school of educational history

O autorze

Meriel Vlaeminke