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SHEFRIN, Jill
Such Constant Affectionate Care: Lady Charlotte Finch - Royal Governess & the Children of George II. 2003. 28 x 22,5 cm. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout. 168 pp
Color photographs, illustrations, and reproductions. Taking as its starting point the set of sixteen dissected maps belonging to the children of George III , this work examines the new trends in education exemplified by the practices of the royal nursery and its governess, Lady Charlotte Finch.
The author establishes a relationship between Lady Charlotte and Mme Le Prince de Beaumont, the French governess and author of the Magasin des Enfans (1756). Le Prince de Beaumont is newly identified as the first person to be selling dissected maps, or cartographical jigsaw puzzles, several years before the map seller John Spilsbury. The educational environment in which the royal children played with their educational toys is recreated from a wide range of contemporary sources. Locating these dissected maps within the domestic context of the royal household allows a re-examination of the historiography of the use and development of educational toys. The discussion ranges over new trends in educational theory and practice including the evolution of rational domesticity and the increasing involvement of aristocratic mothers in the care and education of their children. The influence of Mme Le Prince de Beaumont, and Lady Charlotte's upbringing and her place within a circle of intellectual women are examined. A bibliographical history of the individual puzzles is included, as is the delightful text of the Prologues and Epilogues to the 1732 children's performance of Dryden's Indian Emperor, in which Lady Charlotte and her siblings performed and which was recorded by William Hogarth in his painting of The Conquest of Mexico, Act IV, Scene IV, from Dryden's Indian Emperor. The text is reproduced, together with the painting, at the end of the work.
"... a visual delight... Jill Shefrin has produced an enjoyable and unusual book of cultural history... deal[ing] with broad trends in family life (pedagogy, the education of women, and the workings of hierarchy and patronage) and illuminat[ing] them through domestic detail, through unpublished texts, letters by and about children, and through surviving toys and educational games." University of Toronto Quarterly (74, 1, Winter 2004/5).
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WILSON, Mark
Education in the earliest schools. Cuneiform Manuscripts in the Cotsen Collection. 2008. 31,5 x 23,5 cm. Clothbound with full colour dust jacket. With 568 full colour illustrations. X, 282 pp
This richly illustrated publication by Mark Wilson comprises an introductory essay and catalogue of the nearly two hundred tablets from the Cotsen Collection of ancient school texts, the greater number of these dating from the Old Babylonian period.
The first part tells the story of the 'Eduba' - the tablet house, and the earliest known school. The curriculum of the eduba and its pedagogical techniques are illuminated by the pupils' exercise tablets. A generous selection of images fromthe collection illustrate the various points in the essay, including the preparation of individualized lessons, the use of humor in the exercises, and the universal travails of the student-teacher relationship.
The second part is a catalogue, providing a description and full colour illustration of each tablet.

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Related Subjects: Children's Books - Education - Manuscripts

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