The City and Education in Four Nations

by Ronald K. Goodenow (Editor), William E. Marsden (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers a powerful response to the long-felt need for a substantial study of urban education that takes full comparative account of both the historical and international contexts. A distinguished international team of contributors has been assembled to assess the principal theoretical and methodological approaches to the history of urban education in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia and the specific way in which these have been tried in various national contexts. This is a major work of reference for scholars across the social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521410847
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/29/1992
Series:	Themes in International Urban History , #1
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Problematics and domains: thinking internationally about urban education Ronald K. Goodenow; Part I. Research in National Contexts: 1. History, education and the city: a review of trends in Britain David A. Reeder; 2. Education and America's cities Ronald D. Cohen and William J. Reese; 3. The 'state' of the history of urban education in Australia Kerry Wimshurst and Ian Davey; 4. Out of the shadow: retrieving the history of urban education and urban childhood in Canada Neil Sutherland and Jean Barman; Part II. Approaches to the Social History of Education: Ecology, Choice and Culture: 5. Social stratification and nineteenth-century English urban education William E. Marsden; 6. Compulsion, work and family: a case study from nineteenth-century Birmingham Christine M. Heward; 7. Understanding irregular school attendance: beyond the rural-urban dichotomy Ian Davey and Kerry Wimshurst; 8. Redoing urban education history Barbara Finkelstein; Part III. Needs and Opportunities: Policy and Theory Considerations: 9. Theory in educational history: a middle ground Carl F. Kaestle; 10. Approaches to urban education in the USA and UK David Coulby; 11. The uses and abuses of comparison in urban educational history David L. Angus.

Editorial Reviews

"an enriching contribution to the field." Educational Studies

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