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Informal Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / by M. Wade Mahon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahon, M. Wade.
- Series:
- Global Histories of Education, 2731-6416
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--History.
- Education.
- Non-formal education.
- Education and state.
- Schools.
- History of Education.
- Informal Education.
- Educational Policy and Politics.
- School and Schooling.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Education.
- Informal Education.
- Educational Policy and Politics.
- School and Schooling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal reforms of Irish education that followed in the nineteenth century. Based on detailed evidence from newspaper advertisements, directories, educational prospectuses, textbooks, and other print documents from the period as well as previously unexamined manuscript resources, the author describes this system and how it functioned, emphasizing the transnational dimensions of print culture, English literature, and education reform.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Those Who Can’t Teach Write Dictionaries: Approaches to Reform, 1755-1758
- 3. Competition in Print, 1759-1800
- 4. Exploiting Print Resources: Samuel Whyte’s English Grammar School, 1759-1811
- 5. Prospectuses, Poems, and Playbills: Establishing Social Networks
- 6. Reading and Speaking with Distinction: English at the Core
- 7. “Teaching English Grammatically” in Catholic Schools and Female Boarding Schools, 1782-1800
- 8. The Professionalization of “Literary Teachers,” 1788-1800
- 9. Conclusion: An Informal System of Education.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783031647994
- OCLC:
- 1446801857
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