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The City and education in four nations

Title: The City and education in four nations / edited by Ronald K. Goodenow and William E. Marsden.
Publication: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, 1992.

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xvi, 250 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The city and education in four nations is a response to a long-standing need for the placing of urban educational study in broader comparative contexts, both historical and international. This volume, which launches the series of Themes in International Urban History, is the first to offer an account of the historical educational experiences of four major English-speaking countries, and is likely to remain a unique study for some time, opening up new research agendas in a variety of fields. An international team of contributors has been assembled, combining historical and educational expertise, and the work should interest scholars in a number of disciplines, including urban history, urban and comparative education, social and public policy, social and cultural history and the history of education. The city and education in four nations is arranged in three parts, the first assessing research in the different national contexts, identifying similarities and differences in the various national achievements to date. The second part offers more detailed case studies, placing urban education in socio-economic, cultural, spatial and psycho-social contexts. The final section deals with needs and opportunities in the field, discussing the place of theory in educational history, comparative approaches to urban education and the possible uses and abuses of such comparison.

Series Statement

Themes in international urban history

Uniform Title

Themes in international urban history.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : problematics and domains : thinking internationally about urban education / Ronald K. Goodenow -- History, education and the city : a review of trends in Britain / David A. Reeder -- Education and America's cities / Ronald D. Cohen and William J. Reese -- The 'state' of the history of urban education in Australia / Kerry Wimshurst and Ian Davey -- Out of the shadows : retrieving the history of urban education and urban childhood in Canada / Neil Sutherland and Jean Barman -- Social stratification and nineteenth-century English urban education / William E. Marsden -- Compulsion, work and family : a case study from nineteenth-century Birmingham / Christine M. Heward.
Understanding irregular school attendance : beyond the rural-urban dichotomy / Ian Davey and Kerry Wimshurst -- Redoing urban educational history / Barbara Finkelstein -- Theory in educational history : a middle ground / Carl F. Kaestle -- Approaches to urban education in the USA and the UK / David Coulby -- The uses and abuses of comparison in urban educational history / David L. Angus.

ISBN

0521410843
9780521410847
2735104737
9782735104734

LCCN

91043863

OCLC

ocm25007668
25007668
SCSB-1970027

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Princeton University Library