2014-№3(44) Article 7

L.V. Arkhipova

Technical education in Britain of the 19th century: from apprenticeships to technical schools. P.60-65.

UDC 942.074

The paper provides a retrospective analysis, which encompasses the formation and development of British technical education starting with the 18th-century workshops and finishing with the late 19th-century technical schools. The analysis of literary memoirs provides illus-tration of brutal exploitation of child laborers as a negative side of the 19th-century apprentice-ship. The paper describes the implementation of an idea of introducing technical and labor education into curricula of primary and secondary schools, which was suggested by a British chemist G.Roskoe and a well-known politician A.Acland. The paper presents recommendations of two advanced committees on technical education headed by B.Samuelson and F.Mangus, and used by a conservative government led by R.Salisbury, a pioneer of education law, which was designed to promote state technical education system..

state technical schools, trade skills, industrial school, apprenticeship, private technical schools

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