The Russian influence on English education /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armytage, W. H. G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2018
Series:Students library of education
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Muscovy and the merchant marine
  • Naval storehouse
  • Feedback
  • Setback
  • The first 'county schools'
  • Hull Trinity House School
  • Magnet for talent
  • 2 Spiritual affairs and national instruction
  • John Brown's enthusiasm for state church control
  • Benthamite laboratory
  • Partners in propaganda
  • The Russian Ministry cited
  • From the St Petersburg marshes to Hampshire
  • 3 Polish exiles
  • The first wave: 1830
  • The second wave: 1851
  • The third wave: 1863
  • 4 The aftermath of the Crimean War: 1854-1867
  • Essential expertise
  • Competence vs cousinhood
  • The war and popular education
  • The rise of B.S.A.
  • The military and Russia
  • 5 Nihilism and science
  • Bazarov: the embodiment of nihilism
  • G.H. Lewes and his contributors
  • Wallace and the Russian challenge
  • Early warnings of Russia's technical intelligentsia
  • The premonitions of Seeley and others
  • The War Office again
  • Darlington's report: 1909
  • Russian science in England
  • Russian exiles: Kropotkin and his friends
  • The fifth wave: the Jews
  • 6 Ecumenical efforts
  • Epiklesis vs economics
  • Holy Russia
  • The Eastern Church Association
  • New forms of religious experience
  • 7 Tolstoy and his English exegetes
  • Yasnaya Polyana
  • Tolstoy and Matthew Arnold
  • The English Tolstovitsi (i) the colonies
  • The English Tolstovitsi (ii) the cells
  • D.H. Lawrence and his friends
  • The Garnett circle
  • 8 The Red bogey: 1919-1930
  • The polarization of feeling towards the Soviets
  • Three travellers' reports
  • The Trade Union delegation of 1920
  • The Zinoviev letter
  • The death of the Liberal Party
  • The Trade Union delegation of 1924
  • The revival of the 'religious question' in English education
  • 9 Mediators and interpreters
  • Berdyaev and the Y.M.C.A.
  • P.E.P
  • H.G. Wells
  • The young scientists
  • S.C.R. and A. Sc. W.
  • The C.P.G.B.
  • The polytechnic principle
  • Sympathy from 'old India hands'
  • 10 Whiffs of realism: 1929-1941
  • Businessmen and teachers
  • Films
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Technology and society
  • Russian progress (i) technical training
  • Russian progress (ii) a National Health Policy
  • Lord Simon's first warning, 1937
  • The Left Book Club
  • The Webbs' report
  • 11 The Second World War and after: 1941-1937
  • Communism and managerialism
  • Pressure for the comprehensive school
  • The debate about the crisis in universities
  • Lord Simon's second warning, 1956
  • Russia in Europe
  • 12 The post-sputnik era: 1957-1969
  • The galvanizing of the USA.
  • Lord Simon's third warning, 1960
  • Sir Leon Bagrit and day boarding schools
  • The spirit of Makarenko
  • The influence of Strumilin
  • The 1958 and 1964 reforms
  • Anglo-Russian co-operation
  • 13 Conclusion
  • The dead-end of all discussion
  • The real iron curtain
  • The re-orientation of humanistic studies in English universities
  • The challenge of motivation
  • Belief in educability
  • Bibliography