Scottish Culture & Scottish Education 1800 - 1980, Humes/Paterson: Hardback: 1st

Scottish Culture & Scottish Education 1800 - 1980

Edited by Walter M. Hughes and Hamish M. Paterson.

Published by John Donald Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh, 1983. First Edition. Hardback cover with dustjacket (unclipped), 277 pages. 

CONDITION
Overall good condition - see photos. Fading to spine of dustjacket. No names or writing.

This volume of essays starts from a sense of dissatisfaction with conventional narrative approaches to the history of Scottish education. Among the many weaknesses of the 'Acts and facts' tradition are its limited evidential base, its casual acceptance of questionable interpretative assumptions, and its failure to relate developments in education to broader cultural movements in science religion, literature and politicsThe contributors redirect the study of Scottish education in a variety of ways: by subjecting generally accepted accounts of individuals, periods and ideas to careful critical scrutiny; by adopting a more explicit interpretative stance towards their material; by going beyond the legislative process to examine the effects on education of theological and political conflicts, and the gradual ascendancy of new conceptions of man and nature; by
speculating about the ideological implications of bureaucratic structures designed to administer a mass compulsory system of schooling.

Taken together, the essays offer a refreshing and provocative view of Scottish education between 1800 and 1980 and challenge a number of its cherished myths.

(Bindery shelves B1)