Teaching Britain: Elementary Teachers and the State of the Everyday, 1846-1906

ISBN-13: 9780198833352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 240 str.

Christopher Bischof

Opis

Teachers in nineteenth century Britain claimed intimate knowledge of everyday life among the poor and working class at home, and non-white subjects abroad. This knowledge enabled them to help to enact new models of professionalism, attitudes towards poverty and social mobility, ways of thinking about race and empire, and roles for the state.

Recenzje

The book, as a whole, does a good job in revealing the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which teachers' lives, activities, and reflections were intertwined both with the everyday lives of the communities they served and with the wider historical developments working to transform British society in the second half of the nineteenth century, in particular, the expansion of the state into new areas of social and domestic life. Bischof makes a convincing case for viewing some teachers as interstitial negotiators, communicating across social and class boundaries, while, at the same time, helping to remake and reshape those boundaries. Heather Ellis, Journal of Modern History

O autorze

Christopher Bischof received his PhD from Rutgers University and is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain and the world.