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ERIC Number: EJ468105
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0195-6744
Should the Working Classes Be Assigned a Leading or Supporting Role in the History of Their Own Education? [Book Review]
Mitch, David
American Journal of Education, v101 n4 p432-41 Aug 1993
Smelzer's book deals with the institutional provision of education, rather than education as in and of society, arguing that the relative strength of competing interest groups concerned with popular education determined how rapidly a state-controlled system came to win out over a denominational one in England. (SLD)
Descriptors: Books, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Institutional Role, Political Influences, Popular Culture, Public Schools, Religious Cultural Groups, Working Class
Publication Type: Book/Product Reviews; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: England; Victorian Period
Note: Reviews "Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century" (Neil J. Smelzer). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.