The Rise of the Modern Educational System: Structural Change and Social Reproduction, 1870-1920.

Introduction Part I. Concepts and hypotheses 1. The process of systematisation: the case of German secondary education 2. On segmentation in modern European educational systems: the case of French secondary education, 1865-1920 3. Systematisation and segmentation in education: the case of England Part II. Structural Change and Social Reproduction in England 4. Defining institutions: the grammar schools and the systematisation of English secondary education 5. The reconstruction of secondary education in England, 1869-1920 6. The sinews of society: the public schools as a 'system' 7. Structural change in English higher education, 1870-1920 Part III. Debate and Concluding Discussion 8. The debate on secondary school reform in France and Germany 9. On 'systems' of education and their comparability: methodological comments and theoretical alternatives 10. Systematisation: a critique 11. Segmentation: a critique Concluding comments Notes Index.