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School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling

Education Policy in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Editors:
  1. Johannes Westberg

    1. School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

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  2. Lukas Boser

    1. School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Solothurn, Switzerland

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  3. Ingrid Brühwiler

    1. Public Schools Department, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Herisau, Switzerland

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  • Analyses school acts over the course of the nineteenth century
  • Examines the value, impact and purpose of school acts across 13 countries
  • Focuses on the manner in which school acts were embedded in their own historical, political and social contexts

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The History of School Acts

    • Johannes Westberg, Lukas Boser, Ingrid Brühwiler
    Pages 1-15

  3. “Das Schulwesen aber ist und bleibet allezeit ein politicum”: The Felbiger General School Ordinance and School Reform in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy

    • Martin Viehhauser
    Pages 17-40

  4. Schooling and the Administrative State: Explaining the Lack of School Acts in Nineteenth-Century Prussia

    • Marcelo Caruso, Daniel Töpper
    Pages 41-66

  5. E Pluribus Unum: One Swiss School System Based on Many Cantonal School Acts

    • Lukas Boser, Michèle Hofmann, Ingrid Brühwiler
    Pages 67-92

  6. Education in a Nation Divided: The Contribution of School Acts to the Development of Dutch Mass Schooling in the Long Nineteenth Century

    • Jeroen J. H. Dekker, Hilda T. A. Amsing, Inge J. M. Wichgers
    Pages 93-118

  7. Good and Righteous People and Useful Citizens of the State: The Danish 1814 School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling in Denmark

    • Christian Larsen
    Pages 119-144

  8. Citizens in Their Right Place: Nation Building and Mass Schooling in Nineteenth-Century France

    • Sébastien-Akira Alix
    Pages 145-169

  9. School Acts and Elementary Education in Nineteenth-Century Spain

    • Núria Mallorquí-Ruscalleda
    Pages 171-193

  10. Basic Schools in Each and Every Parish: The School Act of 1842 and the Rise of Mass Schooling in Sweden

    • Johannes Westberg
    Pages 195-222Open Access

  11. A Struggling Nation Since Its Founding? Liberal Italy and the Cost of Neglecting Primary Education

    • Gabriele Cappelli
    Pages 223-251

  12. From the Top Down? Legislation and Public Initiative in Building a School System in Russia After the Great Reforms: 1855–1914

    • Ben Eklof
    Pages 253-276

  13. The Constitution of 1867, Separate Schooling, and the Roots of Division in Canadian Public Education

    • Anthony Di Mascio
    Pages 277-300

  14. The Elementary Education Act of 1870: Landmark or Transition?

    • David Mitch
    Pages 301-324

  15. “Hidden” Governance or Counterfactual Case? The US Failure to Pass a National Education Act, 1870–1940

    • Nancy Beadie
    Pages 325-348

  16. School Legislation, Mass Schooling, and Historiography

    • Daniel Tröhler
    Pages 349-372

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 373-379
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About this book

This book examines school acts in the long nineteenth century, traditionally considered as milestones or landmarks in the process of achieving universal education. Guided by a strong interest in social, cultural, and economic history, the case studies featured in the book rethink the actual value, the impact, and the ostensible purpose of school acts. The thirteen national case studies focus on the manner in which school acts were embedded in their particular historical contexts, offering a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of school acts and the role they played in the rise of mass schooling. Drawing together research from countries across the West, the editors and contributors analyse why these acts were passed, as well as their content and impact. This seminal collection will appeal to students and scholars of school acts and the history of mass schooling.
Chapter 9 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden

    Johannes Westberg

  • School of Education, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Solothurn, Switzerland

    Lukas Boser

  • Public Schools Department, Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Herisau, Switzerland

    Ingrid Brühwiler

About the editors

Johannes Westberg is Professor of Education in the School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden, and is a member of the editorial team of the Nordic Journal of Educational History.
 
Lukas Boser is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern, Switzerland. 
 
Ingrid Brühwiler is Head of the Public School Department in Canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: School Acts and the Rise of Mass Schooling

  • Book Subtitle: Education Policy in the Long Nineteenth Century

  • Editors: Johannes Westberg, Lukas Boser, Ingrid Brühwiler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13570-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13569-0Published: 29 April 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13572-0Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13570-6Published: 10 April 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 379

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Social History, Education Policy

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