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Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England (Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 12) (in English)
Michèle Cohen (Author)
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Boydell Press
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Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England (Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 12) (in English) - Michèle Cohen
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Synopsis "Changing Pedagogies for Children in Eighteenth-Century England (Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 12) (in English)"
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 educational theories, 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 it widens the scope of our definition of education to include the often-under-valued field of "accomplishments" for boys and girls. Indeed, Cohen shows that accomplishments were a formal part of female education with carefully theorised pedagogies, challenging the enduring perception that these subjects were superficial. Subject specific chapters on Latin and geography examine the relations between pedagogies and the competitions between subjects which shaped and produced them. While Latin pedagogy was dominant in understandings of eighteenth-century education, geography was a new subject that had to develop an instructional tradition and a normative pedagogy. Cohen shows that girls were not excluded from learning a science like geography, but the contemporary perception of the inferiority of their education as opposed to the classical instruction 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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