| Description |
xii, 297 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The state of primary education in Europe prior to the French Revolution -- The origin of the Nature School and its influence on Germany--Rousseau, Basedow, Salzmann, Von Rochchow and Richter -- The Nature School in Switzerland--Pestalozzi -- The Nature School in Switzerland--de Fellenberg -- The Nature School in Switzerland--Wehrli -- The emergence of a state system of education -- The adoption of a state system of education by the Netherlands -- The adoption of a state system of education by Prussia -- The origin of the Monitorial School and Nature Schools in Switzerland -- A summary of the main educational forces at work in Europe during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Primary education in Great Britain at the outset of the nineteenth century -- The foreign education tours of Andrew Bell and Robert Owen -- Lord Brougham's struggle for a state system of education -- Four early peioneers of Pestalozzi's methods in the United Kingdom -- The influence of three major publications concerning educational activities abroad (1834-40) -- The influence of Lady Noel Byran and her imitators (1834-40) -- James Phillips Kay (July 1835 to July 1838)--early educational work in Norfolk and Suffolk -- James Phillips Kay (July 1838 to September 1839)--a year of important educational discoveries -- The Battersea Experiment--the first English normal school -- The results of Battersea and of other reformatory measures devised by Kay-Shuttleworth to improve the standard of primary instruction in Britain -- Summary and conclusion. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 281-293. |
| Subject |
Education -- History.
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