the initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes /
First Statement of Responsibility
Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Woburn Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xxxi, 254 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, 1 map
SERIES
Series Title
Woburn education series,
ISSN of Series
1462-2076
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Part OSCAR BROWNING -- chapter 1 A FORMAL INTRODUCTION TO MR OSCAR BROWNING -- chapter 2 LEARNING YOUR LESSONS: IMPACT OF STUDENT LIFE ON HIS TEACHING -- chapter 3 EDUCATIONAL ZEITGEIST AND PEDAGOGICAL INFLUENCES -- chapter 4 TEACHING AT ETON: THE GREATEST SHUFFLER' OR THE 'BEST OF COUNSELLORS'? -- chapter 5 THE PRODIGAL DON RETURNS TO KING'S COLLEGE -- chapter 6 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY DAY TRAINING COLLEGE -- part ELIZABETH HUGHES -- chapter 7 THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY -- chapter 8 THE MAKING OF ELIZABETH HUGHES -- chapter 9 UNDER THE UNIVERSITY'S BENEFICIAL SHADOW -- chapter 10 GETTING ESTABLISHED -- chapter 11 ELIZABETH HUGHES AND THE CATHOLIC STUDENTS -- chapter 12 FRIENDS OR ENEMIES: O.B. AND MISS HUGHES -- chapter 13 DANGERS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS -- chapter 14 THE LEGACY OF ELIZABETH HUGHES.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for men and women at Cambridge. The early initiatives of these two leaders began the development of education studies at Cambridge University and, therefore, serve as test cases to examine the relationship between teacher training and the university. As their early programmes foreshadowed the work of the present-day Faculty of Education, a historical review of these Victorian educational experiments uncovers how the unstable rel.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Teacher training at Cambridge.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Browning, Oscar,1837-1923.
Hughes, Elizabeth,1852-1925.
Browning, Oscar,1837-1923.
Hughes, Elizabeth,1852-1925.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
University of Cambridge-- History-- 19th century.
University of Cambridge.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Educators-- England-- Cambridge, Biography.
Teachers-- Training of-- England-- Cambridge-- History-- 19th century.