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Record Nr.

UNINA9910874693703321

Autore

Mahon M. Wade

Titolo

Informal Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / / by M. Wade Mahon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031647994

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Global Histories of Education, , 2731-6416

Disciplina

370.9

Soggetti

Education - History

Non-formal education

Education and state

Schools

History of Education

Informal Education

Educational Policy and Politics

School and Schooling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Those Who Can’t Teach Write Dictionaries: Approaches to Reform, 1755-1758 -- 3. Competition in Print, 1759-1800 -- 4. Exploiting Print Resources: Samuel Whyte’s English Grammar School, 1759-1811 -- 5. Prospectuses, Poems, and Playbills: Establishing Social Networks -- 6. Reading and Speaking with Distinction: English at the Core -- 7. “Teaching English Grammatically” in Catholic Schools and Female Boarding Schools, 1782-1800 -- 8. The Professionalization of “Literary Teachers,” 1788-1800 -- 9. Conclusion: An Informal System of Education.

Sommario/riassunto

This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal reforms of Irish education that followed in the nineteenth century. Based on detailed evidence from newspaper advertisements,



directories, educational prospectuses, textbooks, and other print documents from the period as well as previously unexamined manuscript resources, the author describes this system and how it functioned, emphasizing the transnational dimensions of print culture, English literature, and education reform.