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The Victorian Era yielded great developments in terms of education, and this time period had distinct characteristics in regards to the educational system. Public education evolved significantly at this time primarily because of new laws that were developed to make education compulsory for a wider range of individuals.
‘Ragged’ schools were charitable organisations that aimed to provide free education to poor and destitute children in 19th-century Britain. This letter outlines some of the general social problems faced by poor children of the era, and calls for greater support of the Ragged Schools Union – as the movement had by then become known.
Although schools have always been around it wasn’t until the Victorian era that these were improved considerably and available for all children rich and poor. In 1870 a law was passed which made it mandatory for all children aged between 5-10 in Britain to attend school.
Popular Education (London, 1868) is a key document for understanding the denominational system in its heyday of the 186os. Kay-Shuttleworth was Secretary of the Committee of Council on Education (the forerunner of the later Ministry of Education) and as a top civil servant was influential in determining educational policy.
13 Μαρ 2017 · Education was considered as the primary means to raise children out of their impoverished circumstances and as one of the most important ways of ‘eradicating the germs of pauperism from the rising generation’. Poor Law Commissioner, Edward Tufnell had felt that improvements in the care of pauper children following the 1834 Poor Law ...
24 Φεβ 2017 · It is a commonplace that the history of education is part of the general social and intellectual history of a period. Yet when we come to recommend to our students good educational histories which embody this precept we find a remarkable dearth of suitable works.
In the early decades of the nineteenth century, educational provision at all levels was still heavily dominated by religious institutions, as it had been for centuries. The role of organized religion was particularly crucial in supplying elementary education for the poor.
