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The School and Society: Being Three Lectures (1899) was John Dewey's first published work of length on education. [1] A highly influential publication in its own right, [2] [3] it would also lay the foundation for his later work.
Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600–1900 (U of California Press, 1994) Ghosh, Suresh Chandra. The history of education in modern India, 1757-1998 (Orient Longman, 2000) Lee, Thomas H. C. Education in traditional China: a history (2000) Jayapalan N. History Of Education In India (2005) excerpt and text search; Price, Ronald Francis.
School Choice and School Governance: A Historical Study of the United States and Germany 2006. ISBN 1-4039-7302-4. Lucas, C. J. American higher education: A history. (1994). pp.; reprinted essays from History of Education Quarterly
In contrast, the town of Sutton, Massachusetts, was diverse in terms of social leadership and religion at an early point in its history. Sutton paid for its schools by means of taxes on households with children only, thereby creating an active constituency in favor of universal education for both boys and girls. [44]
Feudal Society: Vol 1: The Growth and Ties of Dependence (1989); Feudal Society: Vol 2: Social Classes and Political Organisation(1989) excerpt and text search; Bloch, Marc. French Rural History: An Essay on Its Basic Characteristics (1972) (in French) Braudel, Fernand.
Structural functionalists believe that society leans towards social equilibrium and social order. They see society like a human body, in which institutions such as education are like important organs that keep the society/body healthy and well. [16] Social reality is structured and differentiated and provides social science with its subject matter.
The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online
Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii. The concept of grouping students together in a centralized location for learning has existed since Classical antiquity.Formal schools have existed at least since ancient Greece (see Academy), ancient Rome (see Education in Ancient Rome) ancient India (see Gurukul), and ancient China (see History of education in China).