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SUMMARY:‘To Perceive Ideas shooting\, expanding and maturing’:  The Ed
 ucational Philosophy of Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840) - Lissa Paul\, Professor
  at Brock University in Canada
DTSTART:20111025T160000Z
DTEND:20111025T180000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:My heart sank when I read on the British government’s websit
 e\, that ‘the Primary National Strategy’ defines its function as provi
 ding  ‘a set of tools for primary schools\, aimed at helping them to rai
 se standards – and to deliver the National Curriculum more effectively
 ’.    It’s all about them\, I thought\, not about what children learn.
   By way of contrast the late-Enlightenment author and teacher Eliza Fenwi
 ck writes that the point of education is ‘to communicate energy’ and 
 ‘to perceive ideas shooting\, expanding and maturing.’    Though Eliza
 ’s experiments in maternal pedagogies were ultimately stillborn\, the le
 ssons that she and her contemporaries were trying to teach offer alternati
 ves to\, as Jack Zipes says\, the current culture of ‘endumbment’.   M
 y talk addresses those alternatives in the context of  Eliza’s three fai
 led attempts to establish schools for girls: in Bridgetown Barbados (1815-
 1821)\,  New Haven Connecticut (1822-1826)\, and Niagara-on-the-Lake (1828
 -33) in what is now Canada.  \n\nLissa Paul\, a professor at Brock Univers
 ity in Canada\, has recently published her 'starter book on Eliza Fenwick 
 (1766-1840)\, The Children's Book Business:  Lessons from the Long Eightee
 nth Century (Routledge 2011)\, and  is currently working on a biography of
  Eliza.   Also recently published\, is  Keywords for Children's Literature
  (New York University Press\, 2011)\, co-edited with Philip Nel. 
LOCATION:Homerton\,Mary Allan Building\,  Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ\,
  room 104
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