Popular Education and Socialization in the Nineteenth Century

<p>Originally published in 1977, this volume analyzes aspects of elementary schooling in the nineteenth century and the ways in which it prepared working-class children for life in industrial Britain. </p><p>The book examines:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>The procedures and practices of different types of schools.</li> <p> </p> <li>The ideologies guiding elementary education</li> <li>The social implications of curriculum content and pupils’ and parents’ attitudes to the education provided by the church and state.</li> </ul> 1: Popular education, socialization and social control: Spitalfields 1812–1824.; 2: Patterns of attendance and their social significance: Mitcham National School 1830–39; 3: Socialization and rational schooling: elementary education in Leeds before 1870; 4: The content of education and the socialization of the working–class child 1830–1860; 5: Socialization and social science: Manchester Model Secular School 1854–1861; 6: Ideology and the factory child: attitudes to half–time education; 7: Drill, discipline and the elementary school ethos; 8: Social environment, school attendance and educational achievement in a Merseyside town 1870–1900; 9: Socialization and the London School Board 1870–1904: aims, methods and public opinion 1