The Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction 1870–1920 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521330017 ISBN 13: 9780521330015

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Synopsis

The Rise of the Modern Educational System is a pioneering socio-historical analysis of change and development in secondary education in three European countries (England, France, Germany) in the mid to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The authors develop novel theoretical forms of analysis - in particular those of 'systematisation' (Muller) and 'segmentation' (Ringer) - which enables a genuine cross-cultural study and assessment to be effectively carried through. Although clear historical and institutional differences between the three countries are apparent, overall patterns of development emerge as remarkably similar. In particular a common basic transformation of secondary education is shown to have taken place during the period covered (1870–1920), having the objective result of ensuring social reproduction. Special attention is given to the basic restructuring of education in England during this period, where processes of systematisation and segmentation, similar to those operating in France and Germany, resulted in the establishment of a sharply differentiated, hierarchical structure by the close of the nineteenth century.

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Book Description

A pioneering socio-historical analysis of change and development in secondary education in England, France, and Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Review

"...provides an introduction to recent research in European secondary education, disputes the myth that individual achievement in schooling typically allows social advancement, and identifies issues and questions still awaiting clarification." Academe

"...a provocative and, in many respects, valuable volume that should stir debate and interest." History of Education

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521330017
• ISBN 13: 9780521330015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Müller Detlef, Ringer Fritz, Simon Brian