This books shows how villages and towns in the Victorian era saw a great expansion in educational provision, and witnessed the rise of the elementary teaching profession, often provided and supported by local clergymen. It then investigates the social and economic relationships of such clergymen and teachers who worked cooperatively and, at times, in competition with one another, their relative positions typified by the comment of one contemporary clergyman as those of master and servant. The book then discusses how the inevitable result was a complex of movements in society in the final...
This books shows how villages and towns in the Victorian era saw a great expansion in educational provision, and witnessed the rise of the elementary ...
The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in crisis as more and more teachers contemplate abandoning their careers. Key Questions in Education looks at the current and historical debates of each of these issues, examining how a multitude of stakeholders have viewed, and still view, childhood and schooling. In highlighting how these same or similar issues have persistently been debated throughout time, John T. Smith shows something of their complexity and the need to break apart these...
The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in cr...
The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in crisis as more and more teachers contemplate abandoning their careers. Key Questions in Education looks at the current and historical debates of each of these issues, examining how a multitude of stakeholders have viewed, and still view, childhood and schooling. In highlighting how these same or similar issues have persistently been debated throughout time, John T. Smith shows something of their complexity and the need to break apart these...
The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in cr...
