Author: Alexander NicolsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Report on the State of Education in the Hebrides
Author: Alexander NicolsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Report on the State of Education in the Hebrides
Author: Alexander NicolsonThe Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland
Author: Jane McDermidPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135783381
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in both Scottish and British history. The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland examines and challenges this assumption and analyzes in detail the course of events which has led to a more enlightened system. Education was, and is, seen as integral to Scottish distinctiveness, but the Victorian period saw anxious debate about the impact of outside influences at a time when Scottish society seemed to be fracturing. This book examines the gender-blindness of the educational tradition, with its notion of the 'democratic intellect', testing the claim of superiority for the Scottish system, and questioning the assumption that Scottish women were either passive victims or willing dupes of a peculiarly patriarchal ideal. Considering the influences of the related ideologies of patriarchy and domesticity, and the crucial importance of the local and regional economic context, in focusing on female education, this book provides a much wider comparative study of Scottish society during a period of tremendous upheaval and a perceived crisis in national identity, in which women, as well as men, participated.
Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Schools in Scotland: Report on the state of education in the burgh and middle-class schools in Scotland by Thomas Harvey and A.C. Sellar. Special reports
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Schools in ScotlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into Schools in Scotland
Author: Great Britain. Education Commission (Scotland).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800- 1900
Author: Jane McDermidPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134675186
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1900 presents a comparative synthesis of the schooling of working and middle-class girls in the Victorian period, with the emphasis on the interaction of gender, social class, religion and nationality across the UK. It reveals similarities as well as differences between both the social classes and the constituent parts of the Union, including strikingly similar concerns about whether working-class girls could fulfill their domestic responsibilities. What they had in common with middle-class girls was that they were to be educated for the good of others. This study shows how middle-class women used educational reform to carve a public role for themselves on the basis of a domesticated life for their lower class ‘sisters’, confirming that Victorian feminism was both empowering and constraining by reinforcing conventional gender stereotypes.
Gaelic Scotland
Author: Charles W J WithersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317332814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
This book, originally published in 1988, examines the Highlands and Islands of Scotland over several centuries and charts their cultural transformation from a separate region into one where the processes of anglicisation have largely succeeded. It analyses the many aspects of change including the policies of successive governments, the decline of the Gaelic language, the depressing of much of the population into peasantry and the clearances.
Fulfilling a Vision
Author: John StevensonPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630875848
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Education has contributed enormously to the Scottish national character. The emphasis has always been on making a good education available to all and on giving those with talent every opportunity of advancement. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, it was clear that the provision of schooling was failing to meet the needs of an expanding population and the growth and diversification of the economy. In 1824 the Church of Scotland began an ambitious program to tackle the problem. In setting up new schools and the first teacher training colleges, the Church saw itself as supplementing an existing system of national education for which it shared a statutory managerial responsibility. This book offers an account of the struggles and achievements of the Church of Scotland over some fifty years as it sought to control and strengthen school education throughout the country. In so doing, it furthered the model of education for which Scotland became famous. Readers interested in current debates about the curriculum and standards in school education, the involvement of parents, the place of religious education, and the desirability or otherwise of faith schools will recognize their beginnings in these pages.
Tables and Indexes
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Gaelic in Scotland
Author: Wilson McLeodPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474462413
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland, Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic.