| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 221 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Woburn education series,
1462-2076
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Woburn education series.
1462-2076
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The essays that make up this collection examine past, present and future relationships between the private and public dimensions of education. The book offers an analysis of the situation from an international perspective. |
| Contents |
1. Gender and the private/public debate on education in the long eighteenth century / Michèle Cohen -- 2. Changing the boundaries : the voluntary system, private popular education and the battle for useful knowledge, c. 1830s-c. 1860s / Dennis Dean -- 3. From incorporation to privatisation : public and private secondary education in twentieth-century England / Gary McCulloch -- 4. Round and round the mulberry bush : the balance of public and private in early education and childcare in the twentieth century / Helen Penn -- 5. Birds, bees and general embarrassment : sex education in Britain, from social purity to section 28 / Lesley A. Hall -- 6. Domestic science : the education of girls at home / Susan Williams -- 7. Family history and the history of the family / Richard Aldrich -- 8. Changing conceptions of public and private in American educational history / William J. Reese -- 9. Public commitment and private choice in Australian secondary education / Geoffrey Sherington -- 10. Public, private and globalised international education / Peter Leuner and Mike Woolf. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Private schools -- History.
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Private schools. |
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History. |
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Privatization in education -- History.
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Privatization in education. |
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Education -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Cross-cultural studies.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Aldrich, Richard.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Public or private education?. London ; Portland, OR : Woburn Press, 2004 0713002301 0713040610 (DLC) 2003060737 (OCoLC)52773673 |
| ISBN |
0203498143 (electronic book) |
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9780203498149 (electronic book) |
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9780713002300 |
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0713002301 |
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9780713040616 |
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0713040610 |
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0713002301 (Cloth) |
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0713040610 (Paper) |
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