The relationship between education policy and local practices is at the core of research pertaining to the history of education. In this volume, the authors examine this issue from a multitude of perspectives, presenting a broad and comprehensive picture of schooling on international, national and local levels. Three issues of great significance, both in the history of schooling, and for educational policy -School Finance-, -School Reform- and -School Media- are discussed in relation to five European countries by addressing topics such as textbook supply in the eighteenth century, the spread...
The relationship between education policy and local practices is at the core of research pertaining to the history of education. In this volume, the a...
This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century. Based on rich source materials from rural Swedish school districts, and drawing up evidence from schooling in countries including France, Germany, England and the U.S., Westberg examines the moral considerations that guided economic practices and sheds new light on how the advent of schooling did not only rest upon monies, but also on grains, firewood and cow fodder. Exploring school districts' motives and economic culture, this book shows how schooling was neither...
This book presents expert analysis on how the remarkable rise of mass schooling was funded during the nineteenth century. Based on rich source mate...
