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Teaching Britain : elementary teachers and the state of the everyday, 1846-1906 / Christopher Bischof.

By: Bischof, Christopher [author.]Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191871870 (ebook) :Subject(s): Elementary school teachers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Elementary school teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198833352DDC classification: 372.110094109034 LOC classification: LB1776.4.G7Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: 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.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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