Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-83765-069-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 238 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Studies in the Eighteenth Century

Using pedagogy as a lens through which to explore issues of gender, social class, power and hegemony, Cohen's study makes a major new contribution to the study of education in eighteenth-century England.

Through a detailed examination of contemporary methodologies, curricula, and practices this book brings together topics often treated separately: the education of boys and girls of the middling and the upper classes. Further, this study widens the scope of our definition of education to include the often-under-valued field of "accomplishments". Indeed, Cohen shows that accomplishments were a formal part of male and female education, with carefully theorised pedagogies, challenging the enduring perception that these subjects were superficial.

Subject specific chapters on Latin and geography pedagogies examine the relations between these subjects and the competitions which shaped and produced them. While Latin pedagogy dominated eighteenth-century education, geography, as a modern subject, had to develop a new normative pedagogy. Cohen shows that girls were not excluded from learning a science like geography, and that the contemporary perception of the inferiority of their education as opposed to that of boys was constructed as part of the classic vs. modern debate. Further, chapters on debates surrounding public and private education, the Grand Tour, and conversation show that pedagogy is the thread linking education, gender, social class and politics.

This book will be essential reading for historians of education, childhood and gender.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Michèle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Boys, Men and Education: The Public/Private Debate, and the Grand Tour
2. Girls, Women and Education: The Public/Private Debate, and 'Achievement'.
3. Latin
4. Geography

5. The Accomplishments

6. Conversation as a Pedagogy
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Cohen, Michèle
MICHÈLE COHEN is emeritus Professor of Humanities, Richmond, American International University in London, UK.