Reading/Literacy--For the Lower Orders? Part 2: From Defoe to the Coming of a Public Education

Autor/in	Dixon, John
Titel	Reading/Literacy--For the Lower Orders? Part 2: From Defoe to the Coming of a Public Education
Quelle	In: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 20 (2013) 2, S.205-220 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-684X
DOI	10.1080/1358684X.2013.788296
Schlagwörter	Public Education; Literacy; Educational Change; Educational History; Educational Development; English Curriculum; Equal Education; Educational Opportunities; Politics of Education; Disadvantaged; Language of Instruction; Change Agents; Freedom of Speech; Activism; Advocacy; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Erziehung; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Redefreiheit; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Sozialanwaltschaft; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	The second part of this account of struggles over literacy begins in the later seventeenth century. From the 1670s, the new dissenting academies, backed by rising business classes, made teaching in English for a wider curriculum their goal. Thus was Defoe's mastery of a new spoken style developed, while in Scotland, the eighteenth century achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment heralded Modern Subjects. But the labouring peasantry and new urban working classes had to wait for revolutionary tribunes like Tom Paine and Cobbett to speak directly to them. Even then their prolonged struggles for a literacy in their own terms continued--and met a new setback, when the 1870 Act promised them universal education, but in tests dominated by Payment by Results. The struggles resumed. [For part 1, "Reading/Literacy--For the Lower Orders? Part 1: From Wycliff to the Seventeenth Century," see EJ1109375.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01