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Author:   Christina De Bellaigue (University of Oxford, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9781138393035

ISBN 10:   1138393037
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   03 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction - Home education 1750–1900: domestic pedagogies in England and Wales in historical perspective 1. The home education of girls in the eighteenth-century novel: ‘the pernicious effects of an improper education’ 2. The pedagogy of conversation in the home: ‘familiar conversation’ as a pedagogical tool in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England 3. Children’s literature, the home, and the debate on public versus private education, c.1760–1845 4. Education in the working-class home: modes of learning as revealed by nineteenth-century criminal records 5. Charlotte Mason, home education and the Parents’ National Educational Union in the late nineteenth century 6. Self-education, class and gender in Edwardian Britain: women in lower middle class families 7. Home education: then and now

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Christina de Bellaigue is Associate Professor in Modern History at Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Educating women: schooling and identity in England and France, 1800-1867 (2007) and has published articles on the history of female education, comparative education, women and professionalization, and the history of reading. She is currently working on a comparative study of social mobility in nineteenth-century Britain and France, and on the history of the PNEU in the British Empire.

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