Educational Innovators, 1750-1967 (2 volumes)

By W.A.C. Stewart & W.P. McCann
March 2000
Macmillan UK
ISBN: 0333804279
916 pages
$325.00 hardcover set

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This two-volume study of progressive education covers the period between 1750 and 1967. The first thoroughly comprehensive general survey of progressive education in England, it is a work of scholarship unequalled since its original publication in 1967. At this time of continual upheaval in educational practice, the work shows educational innovations not to be just a modern phenomenon but one with historical roots going back to the eighteenth century.

The first volume traces the many currents of thought on education during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examining the state of education in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, the volume takes into account the social and economic changes of the nineteenth century and looks at the role of the school as agent of historical reform. As well as documenting the writings of theorists, teachers, social reformers, philanthropists and continental educational thinkers, the study deals with the contributions made by a number of British pioneers and innovative educational institutions which hitherto had not received full recognition. Volume two reviews three waves of progressive schools, from pre World War I up to the outbreak of World War II, before following the changing position of the progressive schools up to 1967. Although primarily concerned with England, the author discusses some progressive international movements, including key European developments.

Contents:
VOLUME 1:
The Educational Innovators, 1750-1880; W.A.C.Stewart & W.P.McCann (1967) xvi, 370pp + 36 illustrations inc. index
PART ONE: 1750-1850:
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: EXPERIMENT AND ENLIGHTENMENT
Early Experiments: W.Gilpin & D.Manson
Rousseau and English Education in the Late Eighteenth Century
David Williams and the Laurence Street Academy
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND AFTER
Robert Owen and the New Lanark Schools
The Followers of Owen: Working-class Educators and Utopians
The Hills and Hazelwood School
King's Somborne School
CONTINENTAL INFLUENCES
Pestalozzi, Fellenberg, and English Education
Lady Byron, E.T.Craig and Ealing Grove School
Dr. Charles Mayo and Cheam School, 1826-46
Kay-Shuttleworth and the Continental Reformers
SOME GENERAL THEMES
Labour and Education, 1780-1850
Rewards and Punishments, 1780-1850
The Teaching of Young Children: James Buchanan and Samuel Wilderspin
EPILOGUE: 1750-1850
PART TWO: 1850-1880
THE EDUCATION MADNESS
New Influences and the Intelligentsia
Henry Morley's School
Johannes Ronge and the Humanistic Schools
Barbara Bodichon's School
The International School: Free Trade and Education
William Ellis and the Birkbeck Schools
EPILOGUE: 1850-1880
Index
VOLUME 2
The Educational Innovators: Progressive Schools, 1881-1967; W.A.C. Stewart (1968) xvi, 392pp + 34 illustrations inc. index and bibliography
PART ONE: DATA
The Growth of Schools 1889-1898
Merging into Educational Radicalism 1898-1918
New Schools and Europe 1890-1918
Preface to the Post-War Surgence
The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: Beginnings of the New Psychology
The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: The Wave of New Psychology
The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: The New Communities: Dartington and Beacon Hill
The Post-War Surgence: The Twenties: Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy
The Slackening Tide: Bryanston
The Slackening Tide: The Thirties and Gordonstown
The Second World War: Wennington
The International Movement in Progressive Education
PART TWO: THREE HEADMASTERS
Cecil Reddie and Abbotsholme
J.H. Badley and Bedales
A.S. Neill and Summerhill
PART THREE: SOME FACTS, FIGURES AND INTERPRETATIONS
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION
Bibliography
Index

Author Biographies:
W.A.C. STEWART (1915-1997) formerly a school teacher, became the first Professor of Education at the University of Keele in 1950 and Vice-Chancellor in 1967. He wrote numerous books and articles on education and sociology, such as Quakers and Education as seen in their Schools in England, Progressives and Radicals in English Education, 1750-1970 (Macmillan, 1972) and An Introduction to the Sociology of Education (with Karl Mannheim) (RKP, 1962).

W.P.McCANN was Professor of Education at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He co-authored (with Frank Bealey and J. Blondel) Constituency Politics: A Study of Newcastle-under-Lyme (New York: Free Press, 1965).

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