Front cover image for Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge

Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge

Teaching and learning in nineteenth-century Cambridge focuses on college-university relationships, the role of examinations, the politics of the curriculum, and developments in Cambridge during the century
Print Book, English, 2001
Boydell Press in association with Cambridge University Library, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2001
History
vi, 229 pages ; 24 cm.
9780851157832, 0851157831
48026266
The Analytical Revolution from Below: Private Teaching and Mathematical Reform in Georgian Cambridge - Andrew WarwickA parochial anomaly? The Classical Tripos 1822-1900 - Christopher Stray'A mist of prejudice': the reluctant acceptance of Modern History at Cambridge, 1845-1873 - John WilkesConstructing knowledge in mid-Victorian Cambridge: the Moral Sciences Tripos 1850-70 - John R GibbinsLearning to pick the easy plums: the Invention of Ancient History in nineteenth-century Classics - Mary BeardThe Revolution in College Teaching: St John's College, 1850-1926 - Malcolm UnderwoodTrinity College Annual Examinations in the Nineteenth Century - Jonathan Smith'Girton for ladies, Newnham for governesses' - Gillian R SutherlandModels of learning? The 'logical, philosophical and scientific woman' in late nineteenth-century Cambridge - Paula GouldWhere did undergraduates get their books? - David McKitterick'The advantage of proceeding from an author of some scientific reputation': Isaac Todhunter and his mathematics textbooks - June Barrow-GreenAfterword - Elisabeth Leedham-Green