The making and shaping of the Victorian teacher: a comparative new cultural history

Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history ofthe making of the teacher in Victorian England, this is a compelling account of the development during this time of teacher training, inspections and certification - reforms which shaped the good teacher as a modern and moral individual. MARIANNE A. LARSEN completed her Ph.D. at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. She is an Associate Professor in Education at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Her research is in the areas of teacher policy, history of education, comparative and international education, and global education. INDICE: List of Figures - Acknowledgements - PART I: CONTEMPORARY, COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS - Making and Shaping Good Teachers: Contemporary and Historical Contexts - Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives: New Cultural History - Victorian Education Reform: Comparative and International Contexts - PART II: DISCOURSES OF THE VICTORIAN TEACHER - Discourses of Crisis andDerision: Targeting the Poor and the Teacher - The Discourse of the Good Victorian Teacher: The Modern and Moral Teacher - PART III: MAKING AND SHAPING THEVICTORIAN TEACHER - Schools as Sites of Disciplinary Control - Training Institutions as Sites of Disciplinary Control - Examining and Documenting the Teacher - Conclusion: Paradoxes and the Present - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24128-2
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés