03352nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-64799-4 DE-He213 20251030112632.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240716s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031647994 978-3-031-64799-4 10.1007/978-3-031-64799-4 doi LA1-2396 JNB bicssc EDU016000 bisacsh JNB thema Mahon, M. Wade. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80696 Informal Education in Eighteenth-Century Ireland [electronic resource] / by M. Wade Mahon. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 246 p. 3 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Global Histories of Education, 2731-6416 1. Introduction -- 2. Those Who Can’t Teach Write Dictionaries: Approaches to Reform, 1755-1758 -- 3. Competition in Print, 1759-1800 -- 4. Exploiting Print Resources: Samuel Whyte’s English Grammar School, 1759-1811 -- 5. Prospectuses, Poems, and Playbills: Establishing Social Networks -- 6. Reading and Speaking with Distinction: English at the Core -- 7. “Teaching English Grammatically” in Catholic Schools and Female Boarding Schools, 1782-1800 -- 8. The Professionalization of “Literary Teachers,” 1788-1800 -- 9. Conclusion: An Informal System of Education. This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century Ireland, it is remarkable that such a system could succeed, paving the way for the more formal reforms of Irish education that followed in the nineteenth century. Based on detailed evidence from newspaper advertisements, directories, educational prospectuses, textbooks, and other print documents from the period as well as previously unexamined manuscript resources, the author describes this system and how it functioned, emphasizing the transnational dimensions of print culture, English literature, and education reform. Education History. 59175 Non-formal education. 80697 Education and state. 58709 Schools. 59494 History of Education. 59037 Informal Education. 80698 Educational Policy and Politics. 71022 School and Schooling. 70534 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031647987 Printed edition: 9783031648007 Printed edition: 9783031648014 Global Histories of Education, 2731-6416 80699 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64799-4 ZDB-2-EDA ZDB-2-SXED 61660 61660