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Teacher training at Cambridge : the initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes / Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirsch, Pam.
- Series:
- Woburn education series.
- Woburn education series, 1462-2076
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923.
- Browning, Oscar.
- Hughes, E. P., 1851-1925.
- Hughes, E. P.
- University of Cambridge--History--19th century.
- University of Cambridge.
- Educators--England--Cambridge--Biography.
- Educators.
- Teachers--Training of--England--Cambridge--History--19th century.
- Teachers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Portland, OR : Woburn Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for men and women at Cambridge. The early initiatives of these two leaders began the development of education studies at Cambridge University and, therefore, serve as test cases to examine the relationship between teacher training and the university. As their early programmes foreshadowed the work of the present-day Faculty of Education, a historical review of these Victorian educational experiments uncovers how the unstable rel.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction (; A Formal Introduction to Mr Oscar Browning; Learning Your Lessons: Impact of Student Life on his Teaching; Educational Zeitgeist and Pedagogical Influences; Teaching at Eton: The Greatest Shuffler' or the 'Best of Counsellors'; The Prodigal Don Returns to King's College; Cambridge University Day Training College; The Underground Railway; The Making of Elizabeth Hughes; Under the University's Beneficial Shadow; Getting Established; Elizabeth Hughes and the Catholic Students; Friends or Enemies: O.B. and Miss Hughes
- Dangers and DisappointmentsThe Legacy of Elizabeth Hughes; Conclusion (; Select Timeline; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-78303-9
- 1-135-78304-7
- 0-7130-0234-4
- 1-280-04611-2
- 0-203-64268-6
- 9780203642689
- OCLC:
- 437062460
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