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. 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 Front Matter....Pages i-x Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Making and Shaping Good Teachers: Contemporary and Historical Contexts....Pages 3-11 Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives: New Cultural History....Pages 12-28 Victorian Education Reform: Comparative and International Contexts....Pages 29-49 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Discourses of Crisis and Derision: Targeting the Poor and the Teacher....Pages 53-73 The Discourse of the Good Victorian Teacher: The Modern and Moral Teacher....Pages 74-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Schools as Sites of Disciplinary Control....Pages 107-131 Training Institutions as Sites of Disciplinary Control....Pages 132-156 Examining and Documenting the Teacher....Pages 157-186 Conclusion: Paradoxes and the Present....Pages 187-197 Back Matter....Pages 198-232 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