Schooling the Poorer Child: Elementary Education in Sheffield, 1560-1902Schooling the Poorer Child is an account of the development of elementary education and the growth of basic literacy in Sheffield from 1560 to the Education Act of 1902. In Tudor Sheffield, being set to work was the common experience of most children, while by 1902 schooling was compulsory for everyone, however poor. Drawing on local sources, Mercer shows how elementary education was shaped by the social, economic, political and religious influences peculiar to the neighbourhood. In many studies, the contribution of the working classes to the spread of popular education has often been ignored. This book offers a much-needed re-appraisal of the local initiative of Sheffield's artisans in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and of the working-class response to publicly provided education in the nineteenth century. |
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Vocational Training and Godly Learning 15601660 | 29 |
Popular Education and Useful Learning 17801839 | 71 |
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