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by Editor: Gillian Sutherland
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First published by Penguin Education a division of Penguin Books Ltd 1973.
Edited with an Introduction by Gillian Sutherland.
280 pages.
13cm x 19.7cm x 1.5cm.
Cover price: 75p.
Matthew Arnold is best known for his literary and social criticism and his poetry. But for thirty-five years his main day-to-day concern was with state elementary schools as one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.
It was not a job he relished. As Gillian Sutherland makes clear in her introduction, although Arnold was professionally concerned with working class education, this concern paradoxically engendered a preoccupation with the schools he was NOT allowed to inspect - the schools for the middle classes. The view of education he developed was based on the feeling that the education of the middle classes was both more difficult and more important: here were the new leaders of society who could retrieve culture from the barbarism that engulfed it.
This selection of Arnold's educational writings includes selections from his school reports as well as some of his better known articles like 'A French Eton'. Overall it provides a fascinating case study, not only of a critical period in the history of education, but also of the ways in which educational theories of class structure, culture and elites can be developed and sustained with conviction and scrupulousness. If the world has passed Arnold by, his case is still worth pondering.
Gillian Sutherland is Fellow and Lecturer in History at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Contents:
* Preface.
* Introduction.
* Report for 1852.
* The Twice-Revised Code (1862).
* Report for 1869.
* Report for 1880.
* Ecce, Convertimur ad Gentes (1879).
* The Popular Education of France. The Popular Education of France and England Compared. Results on the People (1861).
* The Popular Education of France. Introduction: Democracy (1861).
* A French Eton or Middle-Class Education and the State. (1863-4)
* Culture and Anarchy (1868-9).
* Notes.
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Publisher: Penguin Education
ISBN: 0140812016
Condition: Very Good |
1973
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