The Old Regime Collèges, 1789-1795: Local Initiatives in Recasting French Secondary Education by Bailey, Susan F.

The Old Regime Collèges, 1789-1795: Local Initiatives in Recasting French Secondary Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820422473)

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The Old Regime Collèges, 1789-1795: Local Initiatives in Recasting French Secondary Education by Bailey, Susan F.

The Old Regime Collèges, 1789-1795: Local Initiatives in Recasting French Secondary Education

$59.95
The Old Regime Collèges, 1789-1795: Local Initiatives in Recasting French Secondary Education by Bailey, Susan F.

The Old Regime Collèges, 1789-1795: Local Initiatives in Recasting French Secondary Education

$59.95
Format: Hardcover
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This book demonstrates that the condition of the provincial French collèges during the Revolution contrasted sharply with the expectations of legislators sitting in Paris. The latter consistently endeavored to create a system of secondary education, but they succeeded only in establishing (after 1795) an inadequate number of écoles centrales. Meanwhile a majority of the collèges - faced with problems of divided administrators, insufficient money, scarce teachers, and vanishing students - ceased to operate. Yet, some local authorities reorganized their schools and provided for them a progressive new curriculum. In general, centralizing tendencies doomed important local attempts at reorganization, perhaps to the detriment of the future of French secondary education.

Author: Susan F. Bailey
ISBN-10: 0820422479
ISBN-13: 9780820422473
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1994
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
By Susan F. Bailey
By Susan F. Bailey
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The Author: Charles R. Bailey is Professsor of History at SUNY-Geneseo, where he recently completed a stint of eight and one-half years as chairperson. He received his B.A. from Ohio University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, with Louis Gottschalk as his dissertation advisor. He spent the 1978-1979 academic year at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a participant in a year-long seminar sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published a number of articles and a monograph on French secondary schools prior to the Revolution.

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