While we are constrained
by copyright regulations meantime to publish, as pdf files, two of the
most comprehensive volumes ever written about the history of Scottish
education up to 1969, we feel it important to alert scholars and
interested readers to the availability of the following volumes in
libraries, or for purchase,
THE HISTORY OF SCOTTISH
EDUCATION
Volume One: From the beginning to 1872
SEN 340 07157 5
THE HISTORY OF SCOTTISH
EDUCATION
Volume Two: From 1872 to the present day
SEN 340 09548 2
by
James Scotland, Principal of Aberdeen College of Education (1969)
University of London Press Ltd.
St Paul’s House, Warwick Lane, London, EC4
The value the above
publications can be gauged initially not only from their extensive
bibliographies, but also from this quotation from the first paragraph of
the Preface, common to each of the two volumes.
“It is more than forty
years since Alexander Morgan published his Rise and Progress of Scottish
Education. John Kerr’s Scottish Education, School and University came
out before the First World War. And these are the only two histories of
education in this country which may be reasonably claimed to be
complete. …… ….. There seems …. to be a place for a new comprehensive
history, and this book attempts to fill it.”
Recommended Bibliography for the study of the History of Scottish
Education
