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John Stevenson

Fulfilling a Vision

The Contribution of the Church of Scotland to School Education, 1772-1872

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Education has contributed enormously to the Scottish national character. The emphasis has always been on making a good education available to all and on giving those with talent every opportunity of advancement. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, it was clear that the provision of schooling was failing to meet the needs of an expanding population and the growth and diversification of the economy. In 1824 the Church of Scotland began an ambitious program to tackle the problem. In setting up new schools and the first teacher training colleges, the Church saw itself as supplementing an existing system of national education for… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-63087-584-8
  • EAN: 9781630875848
  • Produktnummer: 30238861
  • Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 188 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'438 KB

Über den Autor


John Stevenson is a retired Church of Scotland minister. He was awarded a PhD was by the University of Edinburgh in 2005. As a minister he served in three parishes before being appointed as General Secretary in the Church's Department of Education, which is responsible for the Church's interest in state education and religious education in schools. He has been chairman of the Association for the Teaching of Religious Education in Scotland (ATRES) and of the Religious Education Movement in Scotland. For a number of years Stevenson represented the Church of Scotland on the European Forum for the Teaching of Religious Education (EFTRE) and on the Scottish Inter Faith Association and on the UK Council of Christians and Jews. In 2000 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Educational Institute of Scotland (FEIS) for his services to school education.

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