| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1 Introduction; 2 The World of the School; Types of School; Elementary Schools; Post-elementary Schools; Where were the Schools?; National Literacy Campaigns; Who went to School?; 3 Ways of Teaching; Teaching Materials; Teaching Methods; Schoolmasters; Schoolmistresses; 4 Higher Education; Universities; Who went to University?; 5 Ways of Learning; Outside the School; Desire for Learning; Limitations; 6 Sources and Measures of Literacy; Indirect Measures |
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Direct Measures7 Profiles of Literacy; Rich and Poor; Men and Women; Town and Country; Old and Young; Catholic and Protestant; Numeracy; Change; 8 Books and Readers; Book Production; Censorship; Book Distribution; Newspapers; Broadsheets and Chapbooks; The Price of Books; Book Ownership; Book Readership; Understanding; 9 Language, Orality and the Uses of Literacy; Language; Innovation and 'Modernisation'; Oral and Aural Culture; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Literacy -- Europe -- History
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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Literacy
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317879268 |
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1317879260 |
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