Religion and Relationships in Ragged Schools: An Intimate History of Educating the Poor, 1844-1870

ISBN-13: 9780367786755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 240 str.

Laura M. Mair

Opis

Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this book provides an intimate account of "ragged schools" that challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving movements and Victorian philanthropy.

Spis treści

Introduction  1 ‘The Glory of God for its End’: The Ragged School Movement  2 ‘A Real Specimen of the Street Arab’: Constructing the Ragged Child  3 ‘Having a Lark’: Children and Teachers in the Classroom  4 ‘But I Like the Boy’: Ware and the Compton Place Boys  5 ‘The Only Freind I Have Got’: The Scholar-Teacher Relationship After School;  ‘Here Ends this Season’: Conclusions

O autorze

Laura M. Mair is a Research Fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK. She has published on the ragged schools in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Studies in Church History. Mair was a consultant to the V&A Museum of Childhood in connection with the 'On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants' exhibition. She is currently an advisor to London’s Ragged School Museum.