Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
By the end of the Twentieth century, formal schooling - once the privilege of male elites - had become accessible to women, the working class and some ethnic minorities. The essays in this volume explore the historical origins of this transformation, analyzing struggles Australia, Canada, China, Columbia, India, the United States, and South Africa.
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Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
By the end of the Twentieth century, formal schooling - once the privilege of male elites - had become accessible to women, the working class and some ethnic minorities. The essays in this volume explore the historical origins of this transformation, analyzing struggles Australia, Canada, China, Columbia, India, the United States, and South Africa.
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Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Transformations in Schooling: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

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By the end of the Twentieth century, formal schooling - once the privilege of male elites - had become accessible to women, the working class and some ethnic minorities. The essays in this volume explore the historical origins of this transformation, analyzing struggles Australia, Canada, China, Columbia, India, the United States, and South Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403974044
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 06/08/2007
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 276
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

KIM TOLLEY is Associate Professor in the School of Education and Leadership at Notre Dame de Namur University, California, USA. She co-edited Chartered Schools: Two Hundred Years of Independent Academies in the United States and is the author of The Science Education of American Girls.

Table of Contents

Comparative Perspectives on States, Communities, and Schooling: An Introduction; K.Tolley Middle Class Formations and the Emergence of National Schooling: A Historiographical Review of the Australian Debate; G.Sherington & C.Campbell Education and State Formation Reconsidered: Chinese School Identity in Postwar Singapore; T.Wong Disciplining Liberty: Struggles for Schooling in Early National Columbia, 1820-1839; M.Clark State Schooling in the Raj: Disengagement and Lesson Teaching to an Urban Elite; T.Allender In the Pay of the Public: Changing Ideas about Gender and the Political Economy of Teaching in 19th Century New York; N.Beadie The Teaching Family, the State, and New Women in Nineteenth-Century South Australia; K.Whitehead From Spaniard to Mexican and then American: Perspectives on the Southwestern Latino School Experience, 1800-1900; V.Maria-MacDonald & M.Nilles Cultural Categories, Hegemony, and the Schooling of the Lumbee Indians in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina; H.K.Dial Historic Equity and Diversity Policies in Canada; R.Joshee & L.Johnson The 1934 South African Education Conference as a Benchmark of Changing Educational Discourse?; P.Kallaway The "Historicality" of the Individual, Community, and State: Reflections on Historiography; K.Tolley
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