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ERIC Number: EJ374276
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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From Charity School to Workhouse in the 1720's: The SPCK and Mr Marriott's Solution.
Simon, Joan
History of Education: The Journal of the History of Education Society, v17 n2 p113-29 Jun 1988
Traces the progress of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge's (England) charity school movement in the early eighteenth century and its shift from promotion of catechistical instruction to putting children to work in workhouses that served to banish idleness and beggary. (GEA)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Poverty Programs, Religious Organizations
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Charity Schools (England); Eighteenth Century; England