English Education and the Radicals (Rle Edu L): 1780-1850 Contributor(s): Silver, Harold (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415753074 ISBN-13: 9780415753074 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
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BISAC Categories: - Reference - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | History |
Dewey: 370.942 |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education |
Physical Information: 148 pages |
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Publisher Description: The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this crucial period, with emphasis on the educational ideas and activities of radical movements, their spokesmen and ideologies. The author stresses some of the central educational interests of radical movements through the radical organizations of the 1780s and 1790s, and early nineteenth-century political and social movements, including the utilitarians, Owenites, Chartists and Tory radicals. He discusses educational ideas and action with regard to infants and adults, basic literacy and political understanding, examines some of the forms of study, self-education and propaganda to political action. This book is a study in miniature of the processes of political and social change in a period of industrial, political and social revolution - its theme is education in its widest sense.
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