School acts and the rise of mass schooling : education policy in the long Nineteenth Century / Johannes Westberg, Lukas Boser, Ingrid Brühwiler, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westberg, Johannes, editor, author.

Boser, Lukas, editor, author.

Brühwiler, Ingrid, 1968- editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational law and legislation--History.

Educational law and legislation.

Public schools--History.

Public schools.

Education, Compulsory.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Summary:

This book examines school acts in the long nineteenth century, traditionally considered as milestones or landmarks in the process of achieving universal education. Guided by a strong interest in social, cultural, and economic history, the case studies featured in the book rethink the actual value, the impact, and the ostensible purpose of school acts. The thirteen national case studies focus on the manner in which school acts were embedded in their particular historical contexts, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of school acts and the role they played in the rise of mass schooling. Drawing together research from countries across the West, the editors and contributors analyse why these acts were passed, as well as their content and impact. This seminal collection will appeal to students and scholars of school acts and the history of mass schooling.

Contents:

The history of school acts / Johannes Westberg, Lukas Boser and Ingrid Brühwiler

"Das Schulwesen aber ist und bleibet allezeit ein politicum'': The Felbiger general school ordinance and school reform in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy / Martin Viehhauser

Schooling and the administrative state: explaining the lack of school acts in nineteenth-century Prussia / Marcelo Caruso and Daniel Töpper

E pluribus unum: one Swiss school system based on many cantonal school acts / Lukas Boser, Michèle Hofmann and Ingrid Brühwiler

Education in a nation divided: the contribution of school acts to the development of Dutch mass schooling in the long nineteenth century / Jeroen J. H. Dekker, Hilda TA. Amsing

and Inge J. M. Wichgers

Good and righteous people and useful citizens of the state: the Danish 1814 school acts and the rise of mass schooling in Denmark / Christian Larsen

Citizens in their right place: nation building and mass schooling in nineteenth-century France / Sébastien-Akira Alix

School acts and elementary education in nineteenth-century Spain / Núria Mallorquf-Ruscalleda

Basic schools in each and every parish: the school act of 1842 and the rise of mass schooling in Sweden / Johannes Westberg

A struggling nation since its founding? Liberal Italy and the cost of neglecting primary education / Gabriele Cappelli

From the top down? Legislation and public initiative in building a school system in Russia after the great reforms: ms:1855-1914 / Ben Eklof

The constitution of 1867, separate schooling, and the roots of division in Canadian public education / Anthony Di Mascio

The elementary education act of 1870: landmark or transition? / David Mitch

"Hidden" governance or counterfactual case? The US failure to pass a national education act, 1870-1940 / Nancy Beadie

school legislation, mass schooling, and historiography / Daniel Tröhler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783030135690

3030135691

OCLC:

1082970319