Trailblazers of Learning: 3 Classic Books on Educational Pioneers
Three Classic Portraits of Reform, Public Instruction, and Pedagogical LeadershipBy Elizabeth Raikes, Charles E. Putney Memorial Association, J. Harold Putman
Length24h 58m
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Trailblazers of Learning gathers three classic studies of educational pioneers, tracing the ideals, institutions, and personal commitments that have shaped public understandings of teaching and learning. Moving between biography, commemorative history, and civic-minded educational reflection, the volume illuminates how individual initiative becomes part of a wider culture of reform. Its varied modes of narration—from intimate portraiture to institutional memorialization—make the collection a useful literary and historical record of education's moral ambitions. The contributors, Elizabeth Raikes, J. Harold Putman, and the Charles E. Putney Memorial Association, bring distinct authorial positions to a shared concern with educational leadership and remembrance. Their works participate in traditions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century educational biography, local history, and reform discourse, genres that preserved exemplary lives while arguing for the social importance of schools. Read together, these voices reveal how communities construct pioneers as models of service, intellectual discipline, and democratic responsibility. This volume is recommended for readers of educational history, biography, and social reform. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare styles of commemoration and interpretation within a single book, while considering the enduring questions raised by educational vocation, institutional change, and public memory. Students and general readers alike will find in it a rich dialogue between personal achievement and collective ideals.
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GenreEducation and Learning, Literary Classics
Length24 hrs 58 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham
2PREFACE
3CHAPTER III CASTERTON
4CHAPTER IV AN INTERVAL
5CHAPTER V CHELTENHAM
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6CHAPTER VI EARLY HISTORY OF THE LADIES’ COLLEGE
7CHAPTER VII A ROYAL COMMISSION
8CHAPTER VIII ORGANISATION
9CHAPTER IX DE PROFUNDIS
10CHAPTER X THE GUILD
11CHAPTER XI ST. HILDA’S WORK
12CHAPTER XII TEACHER AND PRINCIPAL
13CHAPTER XIII PARERGA
14CHAPTER XIV HONOURS
15CHAPTER XV THE LAST TERM
16CHAPTER XVI LETTERS
17APPENDIX B, Page 74. TITLES OF CHAPTERS IN MISS BEALE’S TEXTBOOK 1858.
18APPENDIX E, Page 332. Edward Beale.
19Charles Edward Putney: An Appreciation
20FOREWORD
21One of the "Boys of Seventy-Six"
22A Human Humanist
23Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada
24PREFACE
25CHAPTER III.
26CHAPTER V.
27CHAPTER VIII.
28CHAPTER X.
29CHAPTER XII.
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