Critical Histories in Care and Education - Understanding Connections Between English Care Education Systems

This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history. It provides historical insight to the growing field of care studies and reveals how nineteenth century assumptions and prejudices about care-experienced pupils helped shape education policy and continue to do so today.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Understanding care and education
Chapter 2: Workhouses, district schools and the monitorial method in the nineteenth century
Chapter 3: Flat feet and saved souls: training in the Victorian orphanage
Chapter 4. Mother Empire: Placements, displacement and migration
Chapter 5: Troublesome nippers: evacuation, the Curtis Report and post war policies
Chapter 6: The people behind the pedagogies: Influential theorists in progressive education and care
Chapter 7: Fliers, hurdlers, pedestrians: Leaving education and care

About the author

Kate Brooks is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Bath Spa University and a foster carer. She has worked with national charities on aspects of education and care.

Summary

This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history. It provides historical insight to the growing field of care studies and reveals how nineteenth century assumptions and prejudices about care-experienced pupils helped shape education policy and continue to do so today.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Brooks, Brooks Kate
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032663012
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266301-2
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: The Routledge Education Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Medicine, EDUCATION / History, Philosophy & theory of education, Adoption & fostering, Philosophy and theory of education, Pre-school & kindergarten, Adoption and fostering, Pre-school and kindergarten, Counselling and care of students, Medicine and Nursing