Description
Village Schools: A History of Rural Elementary Education from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century in Prose and Verse
ISBN: 9780195979961
- ISBN-10 : 0195979966
Product Features
- Editor: John Proctor
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Year: 2005 (Second Impression 2007)
- ISBN: 978-0195979961
- Format: Academic Book
- Language: English
- 255 pages
- Paperback
Overview
A comprehensive anthology that traces the development of rural elementary education across three centuries through memoirs, observations, and verse. The book presents various perspectives from pupils, teachers, inspectors, and managers, covering different types of rural schools including dame schools, hedge schools, common day schools, Muslim makhtabs, and Hindu pathasalas.
Interesting Facts
- Features historical quotes from influential figures like:Covers educational transformation across rural and urban settings
- William Blake (1789)
- Thomas Carlyle (1842)
- M.A. Jinnah (1912)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1936)
- Documents various school types across different cultures
- Written by an educator with extensive international experience
- Includes both prose and verse accounts
- Examines educational legislation and its impact
- Chronicles the evolution of teaching methods and facilities
Editor Background
John Proctor has:
- Worked in education in UK, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan
- Served in Solomon Islands
- Experience in Scottish Highland rural communities
- Currently serves as director of studies for national and international schools in Pakistan
Publishers
Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP
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