Author: | James Van Horn Melton |
ISBN13: | 978-0521528566 |
Title: | Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria |
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Language: | English |
Category: | Humanities |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press; First Thus edition (November 13, 2003) |
Pages: | 286 |
Yet already in the eighteenth century, Prussian and Austrian rulers attempted to introduce universal education in societies that were overwhelmingly rural and 'premodern'. Focusing on the reigns of Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740-86) and Maria Theresa of Austria (1740-80), this 1988 book examines the origins, aims, and achievements of the compulsory school movements in those states.
Melton draws on a broad range of sources to show how school reform was part of a broader effort to transform social, economic, and cultu Focusing on the reigns of Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740-86) and Maria Theresa of Austria (1740-80), James Van Horn Melton examines in this book the origins, aims, and achievements of the compulsory school movements in. these states. Melton draws on a broad range of sources to show how school reform was part of a broader effort to transform social, economic, and cultural behavior at the popular level.
James Van Horn Melton has produced an important work on the educational policies of the absolute state and the social purposes behind them. The Eighteenth Century. Therefore, as Melton shows, although the eighteenth-century reforms in Prussia and Austria were largely unrealistic because of many factors (lack of finances, lack of qualified educators, emphasis on military expansion, et., Melton makes the assertion that the reform ideas greatly shaped the century to come. As I said at the beginning this is a fine book. Thank you for writing it James Van Horn Melton. Good health to you and your family.
Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria. James Van Horn Melton. Socialism Goes Global: Decolonization and the Making of a New Culture of Internationalism in Socialist Hungary, 1956–1989. Mark et al. Daniel O’Connell, Repeal, and Chartism in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. 1427 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. by James Van Horn Melton. Yet already in the eighteenth century, Prussian and Austrian rulers attempted to introduce universal education in societies that were overwhelmingly rural and 'premodern'.
Focusing on the reigns of Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740–86) and Maria Theresa of Austria (1740–80), this book examines the origins, aims, and achievements of the compulsory school movements in those states.
List of tables List of abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Administrative divisions of the Habsburg and Hohenzolln monarchies, 1780 Part I. Cultural and Religious Forces: 1. Popular schooling in early modern Prussia and Austria 2. The rise of Pietist pedagogy 3. From image to word: cultural reform and the rise of literate culture in Theresian Austria 4. The catholic appropriation of Pietist pedagogy: Johann Ignaz. Felbiger Part II. Social and Economic Forces: 5. Mastering the masterless: cameralism, rural industry, and popular education 6. From compulsory labor to compulsory schooling:. September 30th 1988 by Cambridge University Press.