The Rise of a Central Authority for English Education (Cambridge Texts and Studies in the History of Education) - Hardcover

Bishop, A. S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521080231 ISBN 13: 9780521080231

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1971

Synopsis

This book traces the nineteenth-century formation, growth and structure of the central authority for education in England. The author uses a wide variety of published and unpublished material and describes the influences - religious, social, political and economic and others that moulded the authority. He considers the effect of the form of the three bodies that - originally held authority for education - the Education Department, the Science and Art Department and the Charity commission - on educational provision and progress throughout the Victorian era. In particular the author considers the impact of the machinery of government on the developing educational system. Dr Bishop discusses such questions as: to what extent was the provision and content of institutionalized education determined by essentially administrative considerations? What factors caused the fragmentation of such educational services as were then provided; and was the lack of unity of supervision at the centre the product of chance or design?

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Book Description

This book traces the nineteenth-century formation, growth and structure of the central authority for education in England. The author uses a wide variety of published and unpublished material and describes the influences - religious, social, political and economic and others that moulded the authority.

About the Author

Chris Bishop has worked in packaging and book publishing since the early 1980s. Amongst his many projects are the Illustrated History of the Vietnam War and Vietnam Airwar Debrief.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0521080231
• ISBN 13: 9780521080231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324