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Public or private education? : lessons from history / editor, Richard Aldrich.

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The essays that make up this collection examine past, present and future relationships between the private and public dimensions of education. The book offers an analysis of the situation from an international perspective.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Aldrich, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Portland, OR : Woburn Press, 2004.
Series:Woburn education series.
Subjects:
Private schools > History.
Privatization in education > History.
Education > Social aspects > Cross-cultural studies.
Education > Social aspects
Private schools
Privatization in education
Cross-cultural studies
History
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gender and the private/public debate on education in the long eighteenth century / Michè€le Cohen
  • 2. Changing the boundaries : the voluntary system, private popular education and the battle for useful knowledge, c. 1830s-c. 1860s / Dennis Dean
  • 3. From incorporation to privatisation : public and private secondary education in twentieth-century England / Gary McCulloch
  • 4. Round and round the mulberry bush : the balance of public and private in early education and childcare in the twentieth century / Helen Penn
  • 5. Birds, bees and general embarrassment : sex education in Britain, from social purity to section 28 / Lesley A. Hall
  • 6. Domestic science : the education of girls at home / Susan Williams
  • 7. Family history and the history of the family / Richard Aldrich
  • 8. Changing conceptions of public and private in American educational history / William J. Reese
  • 9. Public commitment and private choice in Australian secondary education / Geoffrey Sherington
  • 10. Public, private and globalised international education / Peter Leuner and Mike Woolf.

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