For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914University of Toronto Press, 1 січ. 2000 р. - 300 стор. The crucial role of compulsory schooling in the fostering of national identities is dynamically demonstrated in Stephen Heathorn's study of the elementary school system in England at the turn of the century. His book analyses how a specific ideal of English national heritage was consciously nurtured by the professionalizing educational establishment of the period. Implicit within this ideal was an ideology that reinforced gender, class, and race distinctions. Heathorn bases his work on extensive primary material, including more than 450 different elementary schoolbooks. He unpacks the potent symbols and narratives of imperial-nationalist social prescriptions and establishes the centrality in the classroom of a racialized notion of Englishness dependent on middle-class assumptions about 'appropriate' class and gender roles. According to Heathorn, these social prescriptions marked a subtle shift from the mid-Victorian liberal discourse of self and moral improvement. This insightful, well-documented study showcases the multifaceted nature of gender history, and explores the intersection of social, political, and cultural factors in the history of schooling and identity construction. |
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... instruction , educational historians have rarely provided analyses of the actual discursive content of these subjects . Historians of ' popular imperialism , ' on the other hand , have consistently pointed to the role of education in ...
... instruction in schools , J.J. Findlay wrote , ' People are asking on every hand , What are the schools really doing to promote the nation's well - being ? ' To M.E. Sadler , respected professor of history and admin- istration of ...
... instruction , ' and changes were necessary so that the national culture could become ' the basis of all school instruc- tion . ' " Among those educational reformers who sought to alleviate the appalling social conditions of the inner ...
... instruction and finding out what the con- tent of this instruction actually entailed are , of course , two different things . Without the ability to interrogate teachers directly about what they taught , we are left with the scattered ...
... instruction at all , and those who did were frequently subjected to only a few lessons a year . The purchase of such books for elementary students was there- fore impracticable . Even after 1900 , when some history instruction was made ...
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Citizen Authors and the Language of Citizenship | 24 |
The Syntax of National Identity The Liberal Master Narrative | 56 |
Ethnicity and National Belonging | 85 |
Imagining the Racial Other Within | 115 |
The Home of the Race The Familial Imaginings of National Identity in Elementary Schooling | 141 |
Narratives and Rituals of National Belonging | 177 |
for Home Country and Race | 199 |
READINGBOOK REQUISITION AND APPROVAL PRACTICES | 219 |
READINGBOOK PUBLICATION FIGURES FOR SELECTED PUBLISHERS | 224 |
STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN OF READER SAMPLE USED IN THIS STUDY | 230 |
NOTES | 233 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 279 |
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