Title:
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The development of technical education in England from 1851-1889, with special reference to economic factors
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The Thesis examines the development of technical education
from the Great Exhibition (1851). Against the background of
educational thought and practice and working class demand for
educational facilities, it shows how changing economic
conditions rendered-the growth of technical education an urgent
necessity. Expressed through such agencies as were provided by
International exhibitions, the demand for technical education
was articulated through middle and working class agencies and
experimentally met through such educational agencies as Schools
of Design. Intensified foreign competition indicated the need
of this development and depression after 1873 intensified it.
The Technical Education Act of 1889 has its origin in growing
pressure thus engendered and represents an acceptance by
Parliament of a need demonstrated through half a century of
working class and middle class discussion and pressure.
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