Demeter in the Classroom
Agricultural Education for Children, Eighteenth-Twentieth Centuries
Paperback (Published)
(November 2026)
ISBN: 9782503608228
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Price: $99.00
In this groundbreaking book, scholars from different countries discuss children’s agricultural education by considering its many components and aspects: educational programs, teachers’ training, textbooks, practical activities, teaching gardens, small mineralogical, botanical and zoological collections, and the institutional aspect.
Agricultural education for children has played a key role in shaping the younger generation, connecting school, agriculture and nature. This volume explores the topic at the European level, analysing the role of institutions, state policies and pedagogical models in modelling the teaching of agriculture to children from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through an interdisciplinary approach that weaves together the history of education, rural history and the history of science, the authors display how the teaching of agricultural practices contributed to the economic and social development of different European realities. The book brings together contributions spanning from France to Italy, from the United Kingdom to Spain, from Sweden to Hungary and Romania, among other cases, providing a comparative picture of the different national experiences. The pages address crucial issues such as the training of primary school teachers, the use of school gardens, the transmission of agricultural knowledge in textbooks, the circulation of pedagogical ideas and models of teaching spaces. The studies gathered in this volume are essential for understanding the evolution of socio-environmental relationships in Europe from childhood and early youth, crucial moments in the formation of the individual.
Other Titles in this Series
Integration through Subordination
The politics of Agricultural Modernisation in Industrial Europe
Volume 8
From Breeding & Feeding to Medicalization
Animal farming, veterinarization and consumers in the 20th c. Western Europe
Volume 17
Agriculture in the Age of Fascism
Authoritarian Technocracy and rural modernization, 1922-1945
Volume 13
Contexts of Property in Europe
The Social Embeddedness of Property Rights in Land in Historical Perspective
Volume 5
Inheritance Practices, Marriage Strategies and Household Formation in European Rural Societies
Volume 7
The Golden Age of State Enquiries
Rural Enquiries in the Nineteenth Century. From Fact Gathering to Political Instrument
Volume 14
Agrosystems and Labour Relations in European Rural Societies
(Middle Ages-Twentieth Century)
Volume 3
Rural Societies and Environments at Risk
Ecology, Property Rights and Social Organisation in Fragile Areas (Middle Ages-Twentieth Century)
Volume 9
Property Rights, Land Markets and Economic Growth in the European Countryside (13th-20th Centuries)
Volume 1
The Formation of Agricultural Governance
The Interplay between State and Civil Society in European Agriculture, 1870-1940
Volume 19
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