Education for All?: Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark

by Cathie Jo Martin

Why did Denmark develop mass education for all in 1814, while Britain created a public-school system only in 1870 that primarily educated academic achievers? Cathie Jo Martin argues that fiction writers and their literary narratives inspired education campaigns throughout the nineteenth-century. Danish writers imagined mass schools as the foundation for a great society and economic growth. Their depictions fortified the mandate to educate all people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 100941965X
• ISBN13: 9781009419659
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"