Teacher Training at Cambridge: The Initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes / Edition 1

by Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth

Overview

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 relationship between teacher trainers, the university and the government of the day has affected the status of the Education Department within the university.
Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes were extraordinary, larger-than-life characters, who have not yet been well-served in the historical accounts. Their ideals about what teaching should be about is one well worthy of re-visiting. The colleges they set up at Cambridge acted as models for training colleges all over the country so they were an influence on the national scene. In so far as they visited and lectured in Europe, America and Japan, they also had international influence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780713002348
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Series:	Woburn Education Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Oscar Browning 1. A formal Introduction to Mr Oscar Browning 2. Learning Your Lessons: Impact of Student Life on his Teaching 3. Educational Zeitgeist and Pedagogical Influences 4. Teaching at Eton: 'The Greatest Shuffler' or the 'Best of Counsellors' 5. The Prodigal Don Returns to King's College 6. Cambridge University Day Training College Elizabeth Hughes 7. The Underground Railway 8. The Making of Elizabeth Hughes 9. Under the University's Beneficial Shadow 10. Getting Established 11. Elizabeth Hughes and the Catholic Students 12. Friends or Enemies: O.B and Miss Hughes 13. Dangers and Disappointments 14. The legacy of Elizabeth Hughes Conclusion.