Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria
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- Author: James van Horn Melton
- Date Published: November 2003
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- isbn: 9780521528566
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Focusing on the reigns of Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740-86) and Maria Theresa of Austria (1740-80), James Van Horn Melton examines in this book the origins, aims, and achievements of the compulsory school movements in these states. Melton draws on a broad range of sources to show how school reform was part of a broader effort to transform social, economic, and cultural behavior at the popular level.
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"James Van Horn Melton has produced an important work on the educational policies of the absolute state and the social purposes behind them." The Eighteenth Century
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- Date Published: November 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521528566
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.433kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Administrative divisions of the Habsburg and Hohenzolln monarchies, 1780
Part I. Cultural and Religious Forces:
1. Popular schooling in early modern Prussia and Austria
2. The rise of Pietist pedagogy
3. From image to word: cultural reform and the rise of literate culture in Theresian Austria
4. The catholic appropriation of Pietist pedagogy: Johann Ignaz Felbiger
Part II. Social and Economic Forces:
5. Mastering the masterless: cameralism, rural industry, and popular education
6. From compulsory labor to compulsory schooling: education and the crisis of seigniorial authority
Part III. The Limits of Reform:
7. School reform in Frederickian Prussia
8. The Theresian school reform of 1774
Conclusion
Selected bibliography
Index.
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