What the Victorians Learned: Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Schoolbooks

Lewis Carroll, a educação e o ensino de geometria na Inglaterra vitoriana

“…It also made possible cheap, short-run, in-house printing of teaching material. (Howsam;Stray et al, 2007, p. 3) During the 19th century there were many changes in the textbooks and school setting of England. Chastenet (undated) describes this process: the country had a disorganized primary instruction system, which was ensured for poorer classes by two associations -the National Schools, supported by the anglican church, and the British Schools, of non-conformist orientation 11 ; together, the two associations attended to more than 18,000 students.…”

“…However, when Tate"s manual was being considered as a new textbook for all schools, he was attacked by the Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, "the true spirit of geometry will be lost in England as it is elsewhere, if Euclid shall cease to be our text-book" (Howsam;Stray et al, 2007, p. 9).…”

Review of periodical literature published in 2007

“…Mokyr himself restates a central tenet of his treatise, that the technology and efficiency of cotton mills, mines, and shipyards were intimately connected with experimentation, mathematics, and observation, while Jacob offers evidence of how such interconnections might have found their practical application among late eighteenth‐century Leeds textiles manufactories. Elsewhere, Howsam et al. provide a concise study of nineteenth‐century schoolbooks on classics, mathematics, science, and literature, and Murphy uncovers an unpublished manuscript by the eighteenth‐century economist Joseph Massie, thought to have been the outline of a textbook intended for use in Britain's first business school and containing important contributions in the fields of price theory, the role of money, and the rate of interest. Glaisyer, meanwhile, widens our knowledge of financial print culture and the growth of markets by exploring the burgeoning early eighteenth‐century market in texts offering advice on interest payments, the main focus being John Castaing's Interest book (1700).…”

How Thomas Nelson and Sons' Royal Readers Textbooks Helped Instill the Standards of Whiteness into Colonized Black Caribbean Subjects and Their Descendents

“…Even though every child encounters textbooks in their education, it is common for people to forget them (Howsam et al. ). However, the Royal Readers seem to be a notable exception, having captured the imagination of many students and fired their ambitions to excel at their studies but remaining in their memory for decades after school was over.…”