Urban Education in the 19th Century

Download or read book Urban Education in the 19th Century written by D.A. Reeder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political, geographical, demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems, especially for child life, as well as to the realities of urban change