Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland

Robert Anderson taught history at the University of Edinburgh from 1969 to 2007. He has written extensively on the history of education in Scotland, Britain and Europe. His most recent books are Education and the Scottish People 1750-1918 (1995), European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 (2004), and British Universities Past and Present (2006). Current interests include the history of history as a university subject, and the relation between education and modern nationalism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Mark Freeman is a Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. He has published widely on modern British social, educational and business history, and has also worked at the Universities of Glasgow, York and Hull. He is co-editor of the journal History of Education. Lindsay Paterson is Emeritus Professor of Education Policy, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His main academic interests are in education, civic engagement and political attitudes. He has contributed to many debates in Scotland since the early 1990s on education, on social change, and on politics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

• List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Editors’ introduction, Robert Anderson, Mark Freeman and Lindsay Paterson; Chapter 1. Education in Scotland from 1000 to 1300, Matthew Hammond; Chapter 2. ‘Through the Keyhole of the Monastic Library Door’: Learning and Education in Scottish Medieval Monasteries, Kimm Curran; Chapter 3. Schooling in the Towns c.1400-c.1560, Elizabeth Ewan; Chapter 4. Education in the Century of Reformation, Stephen Mark Holmes; Chapter 5. Urban Schooling in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Lindy Moore; Chapter 6. The Universities and the Scottish Enlightenment, David Allan; Chapter 7. Legal Education 1650-1850, John Finlay; Chapter 8. Scottish Schooling in the Denominational Era, John Stevenson; Chapter 9. Education in Rural Scotland 1696 to 1872, Ewen A. Cameron; Chapter 10. A’ Yon Skweelin: The North-East, a Regional Study, David Northcroft; Chapter 11. Education and Society in the Era of the School Boards 1872-1918, Jane McDermid; Chapter 12. Schoolteachers and Professionalism 1696-1906, Christopher R. Bischof; Chapter 13. Democracy or Intellect: the Scottish Educational Dilemma of the Twentieth Century, Lindsay Paterson; Chapter 14. Adult Education c.1750-1950: A Distinctive Mission?, Douglas Sutherland; Chapter 15. The Universities and National Identity in the Long Nineteenth Century c.1830-1914, Robert Anderson and Stuart Wallace; Chapter 16. Alba Mater: Scottish University Students 1889-1945, Catriona M. M. Macdonald; Chapter 17. Gaelic Education since 1872, Fiona O’Hanlon and Lindsay Paterson; Chapter 18. Inventing a Scottish School of Educational Research 1920-1950, Martin Lawn and Ian J. Deary; Chapter 19. Scottish Education in the Twenty-First Century: Continuities, Aspirations and Challenges, Walter Humes; Notes on Contributors; Index.

These essays reveal the impact of the centralization process on education and the source of Scottish myth of quality education, which is useful for understanding Scottish identity…The volume also sheds light on Scotland's educational history and the various reforming movements that shaped it over time.'