Education and Constructions of Childhood (Paperback)

Foreword Series Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Education and the Construction of the Child 1. Lightening Our Darkness: Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment 2. A Pastoral Symphony: Pestalozzi, Froebel and Romanticism 3. Reclaiming Earthly Paradise: Froebelians and the Invention of Progressive Education Part II: Mass Schooling and Modern Childhood 4. Industry, Philanthropy and Industrial Education Systems 5. 'Christian children all must be ...': Moralists, Moral Panics and Empire 6. State Schooling and the Construction of 'Public Childhoods' Part III: Schooling in the Century of the Child and Beyond 7. Brave New Worlds and Rhapsody Renewed: New Rationalities, New Institutions and Old Ideas 8. The Shape of Jazz to Come: Plowden, Progressivism and Discourses of Difference 9. Can Things Only Get Better? New Labour, Quality of Life and Beyond References and Bibliography Index