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

Michele M. Strong (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

243 Seiten

2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-33807-5 (ISBN)

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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

Zusatzinfo	VIII, 243 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Großbritannien
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-137-33807-5 / 1137338075
ISBN-13	978-1-137-33807-5 / 9781137338075
Zustand	Neuware