Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England

Name: Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England
Brand: Boydell Press
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By Michèle Cohen

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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.

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Number of Pages:: 240
Release Date:: 2023-06-06
Publication Date:: 2023-06-06
Publisher:: Boydell Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1837650691
ISBN13:: 9781837650699
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 529 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 18 cm

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