For Home, Country, and Race - Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914

A demonstration of how a specific ideal of national heritage was consciously nurtured by England's elementary school system at the turn of the century. Implicit within this ideal was an ideology that reinforced gender, class, and race distinctions.

About the author

Stephen J. Heathorn is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana Unviersity-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

Summary

A demonstration of how a specific ideal of national heritage was consciously nurtured by England’s elementary school system at the turn of the century. Implicit within this ideal was an ideology that reinforced gender, class, and race distinctions.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Heathorn, Stephen J. Heathorn
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2000
• EAN: 9780802044365
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-4436-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 616 g
• Series: Studies in Gender History; Studies in Gender and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories