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Author:   Jill Shefrin ,  Mary Hilton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138250666

ISBN 10:   113825066
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   09 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin; 'O miserable and most ruinous measure': the debate between private and public education in Britain, 1760-1800, Sophia Woodley; Evangelicalism and enlightenment: the educational agenda of Hannah More, Anne Stott; Marketing religious identity: female educators, Methodist culture, and 18th-century childhood, Mary Clare Martin; Learning and virtue: English grammar and the 18th-century girls' school, Carol Percy; ' Familiar conversation': the role of the 'familiar format' in education in 18th- and 19th-century England, Michèle Cohen; Hosting the Grand Tour: civility, enlightenment and culture, c. 1740-1790, Jennifer Mori; 'Superior to the rudest shocks of adversity': English Jesuit education and culture in the long 18th century, 1688-1832, Maurice Whitehead; Colonising the mind: the use of English writers in the education of the Irish poor, c 1750-1850, Deirdre Raftery; 'Adapted for and used in infants' schools, nurseries, &c.': booksellers and the infant school market, Jill Shefrin; Delightful instruction? Assessing children's use of educational books in the long 18th century, M.O. Grenby; Bibliography; Index.

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'This book is an outstanding contribution to the silent revolution that is placing education at the heart of the cultural history of the long eighteenth century . The editors set out to redefine education as a cultural, rather than a political, social or purely instructive practice. The editors and contributors demonstrate convincingly the innovative work that is possible outside conventional disciplinary boundaries in the conceptual space constituted through education. This is a book that sets agendas for future research and debate as it sheds light on new ways of seeing in the history of education. It is a book with the potential to reconfigure both history and education.' Joyce Goodman, University of Winchester, UK 'A first-rate volume that is of considerable value, both for content and for methodology.' Enlightenment and Dissent

"'This book is an outstanding contribution to the silent revolution that is placing education at the heart of the cultural history of the ""long eighteenth century"". The editors set out to redefine education as a cultural, rather than a political, social or purely instructive practice. The editors and contributors demonstrate convincingly the innovative work that is possible outside conventional disciplinary boundaries in the conceptual space constituted through education. This is a book that sets agendas for future research and debate as it sheds light on ""new ways of seeing"" in the history of education. It is a book with the potential to reconfigure both history and education.' Joyce Goodman, University of Winchester, UK 'A first-rate volume that is of considerable value, both for content and for methodology.' Enlightenment and Dissent"

Author Information

Mary Hilton is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge and Jill Shefrin was for many years a librarian with the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books and a Research Associate in Arts at Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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