2010

Frances Ferguson

  • Professor
  • Johns Hopkins University
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Project

Designing Education in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

Program

ACLS Fellowship Program

Department

English

Abstract

“Designing Education” focuses on the ways in which writers from Locke and Rousseau through Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, and Bentham designed education so as to present learning as a matter of selecting from an array of choices. They developed educational tools that aimed to make good choices perspicuous and attended closely to how social groupings might forward education by making students’ work observable.