This book focuses on two educationalists, Oscar Browning (1837-1923) and Elizabeth Hughes (1852-1925) who were the principals of the two separate day training colleges for men and women at Cambridge. The early initiatives of these two leaders began the development of education studies at Cambridge University and, therefore, serve as test cases to examine the relationship between teacher training and the university. As their early programmes foreshadowed the work of the present-day Faculty of Education, a historical review of these Victorian educational experiments uncovers how the unstable relationship between teacher trainers, the university and the government of the day has affected the status of the Education Department within the university. Oscar Browning and Elizabeth Hughes were extraordinary, larger-than-life characters, who have not yet been well-served in the historical accounts. Their ideals about what teaching should be about is one well worthy of re-visiting. The colleges they set up at Cambridge acted as models for training colleges all over the country so they were an influence on the national scene. In so far as they visited and lectured in Europe, America and Japan, they also had international influence.
Author(s): Pam Hirsch
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 288
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
HISTORICAL CONTEXT......Page 13
NOTES......Page 26
OSCAR BROWNING......Page 33
1 A FORMAL INTRODUCTION TO MR OSCAR BROWNING......Page 34
NOTES......Page 42
2 LEARNING YOUR LESSONS: IMPACT OF STUDENT LIFE ON HIS TEACHING......Page 46
NOTES......Page 56
3 EDUCATIONAL ZEITGEIST AND PEDAGOGICAL INFLUENCES......Page 60
NOTES......Page 69
4 TEACHING AT ETON: THE GREATEST SHUFFLER’ OR THE ‘BEST OF COUNSELLORS’?......Page 72
NOTES......Page 84
5 THE PRODIGAL DON RETURNS TO KING’S COLLEGE......Page 86
NOTES......Page 98
6 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY DAY TRAINING COLLEGE......Page 102
NOTES......Page 134
ELIZABETH HUGHES......Page 139
7 THE UNDERGROUND RAILWAY......Page 140
NOTES......Page 150
8 THE MAKING OF ELIZABETH HUGHES......Page 153
NOTES......Page 161
A BEGINNING PLACE......Page 163
NOTES......Page 178
10 GETTING ESTABLISHED......Page 181
NOTES......Page 191
11 ELIZABETH HUGHES AND THE CATHOLIC STUDENTS......Page 193
NOTES......Page 202
12 FRIENDS OR ENEMIES: O.B. AND MISS HUGHES......Page 205
NOTES......Page 216
13 DANGERS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS......Page 220
NOTES......Page 227
14 THE LEGACY OF ELIZABETH HUGHES......Page 229
NOTES......Page 241
CONCLUSION......Page 244
PRINCIPAL RELATIONS......Page 247
OPENING THE GATES......Page 256
THE PRINCIPLES......Page 263
NOTES......Page 265
SELECT TIMELINE......Page 270
PRIMARY SOURCES FOR OSCAR BROWNING......Page 273
PRIMARY SOURCES FOR ELIZABETH HUGHES......Page 274
SECONDARY SOURCES......Page 275
ESSAYS AND ARTICLES......Page 280
DISSERTATIONS AND UNPUBLISHED PAPERS......Page 281
INDEX......Page 283
