Joseph Lancaster, William Corston

Improvements in Education, as It Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community

With a Brief Sketch of the Life of Joseph Lancaster

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The revised 1805 third edition of an influential 1803 work, reissued here with an 1840 biography of Joseph Lancaster.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781108066341
• ISBN-10: 1108066348
• Artikelnr.: 40307355

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Improvements in Education: Advertisement
Introduction
1. A short history of the free-school
2. Principles on which the institution is conducted
3. On the arrangements of the institution
4. Method of teaching the inferior classes reading
5. Improved method of teaching spelling by writing
6. A method of teaching to spell and read
7. Extempore method of spelling
8. An account of the improved method of instruction
9. Inspection
10. Emulation and rewards
11. Offences and punishments
12. Order
13. On female education and employment
14. Means of employing 50,000 children
15. An account of the state of those schools
16. Second class of schools
17. Hints for the reformation of the present system
Appendix
List of subscribers
Part II. A Brief Sketch of the Life of Joseph Lancaster: Preface
1. Joseph Lancaster's birth and childhood
2. Joseph's first school, and its progress
3. Joseph becomes acquainted with the author
4. Joseph travels through the kingdom, lecturing on his system
5. Joseph's arrival in London
6. Joseph's second visit to Canterbury, and its results
7. Meeting of Joseph and Mr Fox at the author's house
8. Joseph goes to America.