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Author Hirsch, Pam

Title Teacher training at Cambridge : the initiatives of Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes / Pam Hirsch, Mark McBeth
Published London : Woburn Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 254 pages) : illustrations, 1 map
Series Woburn education series, 1462-2076
Woburn education series. 1462-2076
Contents 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
Summary 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
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Notes English
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Subject Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923.
Hughes, Elizabeth, 1852-1925.
SUBJECT Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923 fast
Hughes, Elizabeth, 1852-1925 fast
Subject University of Cambridge -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT University of Cambridge fast
Subject Educators -- England -- Cambridge -- Biography
Teachers -- Training of -- England -- Cambridge -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Research.
Educators
Teachers -- Training of
England -- Cambridge
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author McBeth, Mark
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