The Making and Shaping of the Victorian Teacher : A Comparative New Cultural History

Providing comparative and international contexts to understand the history of the 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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Part I: Contemporary, Comparative and Historical Contexts......Page 12 The twenty-first century background......Page 14 The Victorian era background......Page 16 Why the Victorian era?......Page 18 Book structure......Page 19 Traditional and revisionist histories of education......Page 23 New cultural history......Page 26 Archaeological approach......Page 29 Genealogical approach......Page 33 Sources and archival research......Page 37 Conclusion......Page 38 3 Victorian Education Reform: Comparative and International Contexts......Page 40 England: Building an education system......Page 41 Building education systems: Comparative and international contexts......Page 43 Building education systems: Standard academic explanations......Page 46 The spread of educational ideas and practices: Global connections......Page 48 Conclusion......Page 57 Part II: Discourses of the Victorian Teacher......Page 62 Crisis discourse: Targeting poor, labouring and immigrant populations......Page 64 Crisis discourse: Comparative and international contexts......Page 67 Education as the panacea......Page 70 Discourse of derision: Targeting the teacher......Page 73 Discourse of derision: Comparative and international contexts......Page 81 Conclusion......Page 83 5 The Discourse of the Good Victorian Teacher: The Modern and Moral Teacher......Page 85 The Modern Teacher: Knowledge and skills......Page 86 The Modern Teacher: Comparative and international contexts......Page 95 Morality and schooling......Page 100 Morality and schooling: Comparative and international contexts......Page 103 The moral teacher: Habits and dispositions......Page 105 The gendered and dualistic nature of the discourse of the good teacher......Page 109 Teaching power: Innate or learned?......Page 111 Conclusion......Page 113 Part III: Making and Shaping the Victorian Teacher......Page 116 6 Schools as Sites of Disciplinary Control......Page 118 Early schooling: Teachers and community relations......Page 119 Early schooling: Comparative and international contexts......Page 121 External inspections: Inspectors, trustees/managers, and school visitors......Page 124 External inspections: Comparative and international contexts......Page 130 Making and shaping the teacher through inspections......Page 132 Internal inspections: Self-inspection and the soul......Page 135 Conclusion......Page 139 7 Training Institutions as Sites of Disciplinary Control......Page 143 Overview of teacher training institutions: England and abroad......Page 144 Selecting and shaping the teacher’s character......Page 145 Selecting and shaping the teacher’s body......Page 153 Complete and complex systems of authority......Page 159 Conclusion......Page 164 8 Examining and Documenting the Teacher......Page 168 Examining the teacher......Page 169 Examining the teacher: Comparative and international contexts......Page 172 The examination as public theatre: Constructing the visible teacher......Page 173 The rituals and rules of the examination: Constructing the obedient teacher......Page 178 The collection and publication of data about the teacher......Page 185 The collection of statistics: Comparative and international contexts......Page 188 Statistical data and constructing the teacher......Page 192 Conclusion......Page 194 9 Conclusion: Paradoxes and the Present......Page 198 Tensions and paradoxes......Page 200 New cultural history and comparative studies......Page 202 Addressing criticisms of new cultural history......Page 204 Connecting the past to the present......Page 205 Bibliography......Page 209 Index......Page 226 This book presents a new cultural history of the making and shaping of the good teacher in Victorian England, describing the ways that teachers came to be socially constructed and governed through reforms such as teacher training, inspections, and examination, which were all established and refined during the Victorian era. € Situated within an international and comparative context of educational reforms that were taking place in North America and Europe, this history of the Victorian teacher shows how the patterns and practices that took place in England also€had a broader, more global history. Full of contemporary significance when now, teachers are confronting accountability-based demands on their work, this is a compelling account of the historical origins of how teachers and teaching came to be regulated through a set of educational reforms that still continue to influence and shape the profession€today This book presents a cultural history of the making and shaping of teachers in Victorian England, describing how teachers came to be regulated through educational reforms such as teacher training, inspections, and examinations, all of which were established during the Victorian Era and continue to influence the profession today