Böcker av Harold Silver

Explores the nature of the social history of education. This book examines what aspects of the history of education have been neglected and why.

Thousands of elementary schools for the children of the poor were founded during the nineteenth century. This volume shows a picture of the social composition of the school, its curriculum and teaching methods, and its administration and finance. It relates the history of the school to that of London and the church.

Traces the dynamic of ideological and social change from the 1790s to the 1830s in terms of attitudes to education and analyzes the range of contemporary opinions on popular education.

Describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events - such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution - have wrought on it. This book examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance.

The Silvers examine the shift of attention in Britain from social class and the secondary school to poverty and the primary and preschool stage, and use extensive archive and interview material to analyse in-depth transatlantic interactions, similarities and differences in systems and policies.

An exploration of the changing patterns of higher education in England in the 20th century, the types of institutions and the emergence of a "system" of education. The book traces the relationship between the writer-advocates of higher education and the changing world of higher education.

This book illuminates current debates about the nature and status of research in education and calls for a wider understanding of education by policy makers and research funders.