The Rise of the Modern Educational System

• Introduction; Part I. Concepts and hypotheses; 1. The process of systematisation: the case of German secondary education; 2. On segmentation in modern European educational systems: the case of French secondary education, 1865–1920; 3. Systematisation and segmentation in education: the case of England; Part II. Structural Change and Social Reproduction in England; 4. Defining institutions: the grammar schools and the systematisation of English secondary education; 5. The reconstruction of secondary education in England, 1869–1920; 6. The sinews of society: the public schools as a 'system'; 7. Structural change in English higher education, 1870–1920; Part III. Debate and Concluding Discussion; 8. The debate on secondary school reform in France and Germany; 9. On 'systems' of education and their comparability: methodological comments and theoretical alternatives; 10. Systematisation: a critique; 11. Segmentation: a critique; Concluding comments; Notes; Index.

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