Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Setting the agenda 2. On the Origins of the Educational Terms Class and Curriculum 3. Schooling to Order: Jean Baptist de la Salle and the Pedagogy of Elementary Education 4. Adam Smith and the Moral Economy of the Classroom System 5. On Simultaneous Instruction and the Emergence of Class Teaching 6. The Recitation Revisited 7. Notes Towards a Theory of Schooling; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

David Hamilton