Abstract
The French Revolution was a ground-breaking period when a revolutionary ideology came to the fore. The revolutionaries threw themselves into creating education for a new era with some interesting experimentation in its form and content. Its legacy for education was in providing a blueprint for a secular state-controlled education as a vehicle for social equality. State control of education was consolidated under Napoleon Bonaparte and this gave rise to a limited meritocracy. Despite reactionary regimes coming to the fore during the Restoration and the Second Empire, a republican ideology persisted, albeit in attenuated form. At the end of the chapter the historical data is analysed in terms of the three explanatory factors: persistence of ideology, social class alliances, and, the nature of the state.
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Doyle, A.M. (2018). The Development of Education in France from 1789 to 1870. In: Social Equality in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94721-1_4
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