Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes - Michele M. Strong

Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes

Buch | Softcover
243 Seiten
2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-46393-0 (ISBN)
64,15 inkl. MwSt
Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in an educational reform movement spearheaded by middle-class liberals.

Dr. Michele M. Strong is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Alabama, USA.

Introduction: Grand Tours and Workers' Tours: Rethinking Victorian Travel and Education 1. 'A True Agent of Civilisation': Travel and the 'Educational Idea' 2. Turning the 'Educational Idea' on its Head: The Lib/Lab Alliance and the Organization of the 1867 Working Men's Exhibition Tours 3. 'The Lessons of Paris': The 1867 Working Men's Exhibition Tours and the Artisan Imagination 4. 'High Attainments': The Artisan Exhibition Tours and the Campaign for Technical Education, 1867-1889 5. Class Trips and the Meaning of British Citizenship: The Regent Street Polytechnic at Home and Abroad, 1871-1903 6. Conclusion: Goody, Gordon, and Shilpa Shetty 'Poppadom': The Politics of Study Abroad from the New Liberalism to New Labour

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo VIII, 243 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte Education • Exhibition • Experience • Imagination • organization • Politics • Reform • Victorian Era • Women
ISBN-10 1-349-46393-0 / 1349463930
ISBN-13 978-1-349-46393-0 / 9781349463930
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