Teaching children the geography of England and Wales: an analysis of selected Georgian and Victorian textbooks and educational pastimes.
Children in Georgian and Victorian times were expected to be familiar with the geography of England and Wales. This study analyses some of the resources then available which taught children this information. John Aikin’s England Delineated is evaluated as a geographical text and then compared with l...
| Published in: | Paedagogica Historica Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 347 - 364 |
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