ERIC Number: ED657257
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Jul-16
Pages: 246
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 978-3-031-64798-7
ISSN: ISSN-2731-6408
EISSN: EISSN-2731-6416
Informal Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Global Histories of Education
M. Wade Mahon
Palgrave Macmillan
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.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance, European History, Printed Materials, English, English Instruction, Catholic Schools, Single Sex Schools, Females, Boarding Schools, English Literature
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Publication Type: Books; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland
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