Public Or Private Education?: Lessons from HistoryRichard Aldrich This collection of essays, edited by the distinguished historian of education Richard Aldrich, examines past, present and future relationships between the private and public dimensions of knowledge and education. Following the introduction, it is divided into three sections: * key themes and turning points in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries This book will become required reading not only in respect of contemporary and historical debates about private and public spheres in education, but also with reference to the wider themes of the creation, diffusion and ownership of knowledge. |
Contents
the Voluntary System Private Popular | 36 |
Public and Private Secondary | 53 |
the Balance of Public | 75 |
Sex Education | 98 |
the Education of Girls at Home | 116 |
Family History and the History of the Family | 127 |