A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire

by Heather Ellis (Editor)

Overview

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.

The period between 1800 and 1920 was pivotal in the global history of education and witnessed many of the key developments which still shape the aims, context and lived experience of education today. These developments included the spread of state sponsored mass elementary education; the efforts of missionary societies and other voluntary movements; the resistance, agency and counter-initiatives developed by indigenous and other colonized peoples as well as the increasingly complex cross border encounters and movements which characterized much educational activity by the end of this period.

An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350239142
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	04/20/2023
Series:	The Cultural Histories Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Heather Ellis is Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in Education at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Heather Ellis is Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her main field of research is the cultural history of universities and higher education. Her first monograph, Generational Conflict and University Reform: Oxford in the Age of Revolution (2012) won the 2014 Kevin Brehony Prize from the History of Education Society UK for the best first book in the history of education.

Table of Contents

General Editor Preface
Introduction, Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield, UK)
1. Church, Religion and Morality, Maria Patricia Williams (University College London, UK)
2. Knowledge, Media and Communication, Jana Tschurenev (Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany)
3. Children and Childhoods, Stephanie Olsen (McGill University, Canada)
4. Family, Community and Sociability, Catherine Sloan (Oxford University, UK)
5. Learners and Learning, Tom Woodin (University College London, UK)
6. Teachers and Teaching, Marianne A. Larsen (Western University, Canada)
7. Literacies, Maxine Burton (Independent Scholar, UK), Heather Ellis (University of Sheffield, UK) and Gary McCulloch (University College London, UK)
8. Life Histories, Alys Blakeway, Sue Anderson-Faithful, Joyce Goodman, Stephanie Spencer (University of Winchester, UK)
Notes on Contributors
Index