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From Compulsory Schooling to Free University in Central and West European Education. A Review Article

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Charles E. McClelland
Charles E. McClelland
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University of New Mexico
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , January 1990 , pp. 190 - 195
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1990

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References

1 Stone, Lawrence, ed., “Introduction,” The University and Society, 2 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974–1975), v, viii.Google Scholar See also Stone, Lawrence, ed., Schooling and Society, Studies in the History of Education (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976). The three volumes together contain major papers presented at the Davis Center on the history of education.Google Scholar

2 One commendable, costly, and time-consuming result has been the two-volume work by Herrlitz, Hans-Georg and Titze, Hartmut, Datenhandbuch zur deutschen Bildungsgeschichte, (1987-), which is appearing in installments and covers the nineteenth and first haif of the twentieth centuries.Google Scholar

3 The book by Ringer, Fritz, Education and Society in Modern Europe (Bloomington, 1979),Google Scholar is one of the most ambitious comparative works of the last decade, since it reproduces very valuable statistical material and is notable for cautious conclusions, as well as a bold, controversial analytical framework. On the difficulties of comparing ' “middle classes” and their educational system, see Kocka, Jurgen, ed., Bürgerlichkeit im 19. Jahrhundert, 3 vols. (Munich, 1988).Google Scholar

4 McClelland, Compare Charles E., “Structural Change and Social Reproduction in German Universities, 1870–1920,” History of Education, 15:3 (1986), 177–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar For a critique of Miller's original hypotheses about the growing exclusivity of schooling (which have been somewhat modified in the newer work under review here), see Lundgreen, Peter, “Die Bildungschancen beim Übergang von der ‘Gesamthochschule’ zum Schulsystem der Klassengesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert,” Zeitschrft fir Pädagogik, 24:1 (1978), 101–15.Google Scholar