Mass education and the limits of state building, c. 1870-1930 / edited by Laurence Brockliss and Nicola Sheldon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brockliss, L. W. B.

Sheldon, Nicola, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and state--History--Cross-cultural studies.

Citizenship--Study and teaching--History--Cross-cultural studies.

Citizenship--Study and teaching.

History.

Education and state.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

x, 325 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamphire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

National governments toddy see schooling as a key instrument for the fostering of national identity and active citizenship. In developing countries, the goals of universal literacy and mass schooling are recognized as the basis for economic progress and political stability. In this book, the authors offer an international insight into the way children were schooled for citizenship in Britain, Europe and other parts of the world in the nineteenth and early twentieth century when states first seriously invested in the provision of mass education. They show that there is no simple axis between schooling and the creation of citizens. All around the world, the state's goals were hard to achieve in the face of teacher agency, localism, religious influence and parental priorities, as well the perennial problems of funding.

Laurence Brockliss is Fellow of Magdalen College, UK, and Director of the Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood. His area of research is the history of education science and medicine in Britain and France. His latest book, co-edited with Heather Montgomery, is Childhood and Violence in Western Tradition (2010).

Nicola Sheldon has degrees in history from Manchester and Oxford Universities and worked as a teacher of history and politics, latterly as a head teacher, in sixth-form colleges from 1987-2003. From 2009-2011, she was a researcher and writer for the History in Education Project (www.history.ac.uk/history-in-education). She now works in teacher training for the Institute of Education in London. Book jacket.

Contents:

Citizenship, moral education and the English elementary school / Susannah Wright

Elite education and the development of mass elementary schooling in England, 1870-1930 / Heather Ellis

Faith and nationhood: church, state and the provision of schooling in Ireland, 1870-1930 / Deirdre Raftery and Martina Relihan

From the Zwergschule (one-room schoolhouse) to the comprehensive school: German elementary schools in imperial Germany and the Weimar Republic, 1870-1930 / Gunilla Budde

Schools are society's salvation: the state and mass education in France, 1870-1930 / Jean-François Chanet

Russia and the Soviet Union: schooling, citizenship, and the reach of the state, 1870-1945 / Ben Eklof

"To become good members of civil society and patriotic Americans": mass education in the United States, 1870-1930 / Ellen Berg

Primary education and the construction of citizenship in Brazil, 1870-1930: progress and tensions / Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvea and Alessandra Frota Schueller

The role of mass education in nation building in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1870-1930 / Nazan Cicek

"Education for every son and daughter of South Africa": race, class and the compulsory education debate in the Cape Colony / S. E. Duff

India's trials with citizenship, modernisation, and nationhood / Nita Kumar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230273504

0230273505

OCLC:

773909115