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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE Introduction Approaches to the Study of Nineteenth-century Educational Disparities; CHAPTER TWO Diffusion and Regional Disparity in Educational Provision in England and Wales 1800-1870; CHAPTER THREE Urban Change, Urban Experience and Educational Responses; CHAPTER FOUR A Graduated System of Urban Schooling; CHAPTER FIVE Schools for the Urban Middle Classes; CHAPTER SIX Variations in Local Decision-Making: Comparative Studies of Lancashire Town and Country during the School Board Period |
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CHAPTER SEVEN Charles Booth's Surveys and Educational Disparities in Slum and Suburban LondonCHAPTER EIGHT Bootle in the School Board Period: School Supply, Status, and Achievement; CHAPTER NINE 'Troublesome Thoroughfares': Schooling and Communities in Bootle's Dockland; CHAPTER TEN 'Two Sides of the Railway Tracks': Schooling and Communities in a Victorian Suburb: Birkdale; Index |
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A number of experiences and preoccupations have influenced theten years or so of research from which this book has emerged. Thefirst is an academic training which has included a first degree ingeography and a higher degree in educational history. Thecombination has provided the impulse and hopefully also thecapacity to work comfortably in the disciplinary borderlands. The second has been the experience in school-teaching, teachereducation, research, and as a parent, of the importance of 'placing'in affecting the well-being of children, whether at the micro-level, in terms of the differentially e |
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Print version record |
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Educational equalization -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Educational equalization -- Wales -- History -- 19th century
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Educational equalization
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England
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Wales
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203988251 |
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0203988256 |
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