The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Aruna Krishnamurthy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2016-12-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351880330

In Britain, the period that stretches from the middle of the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century marks the emergence of the working classes, alongside and in response to the development of the middle-class public sphere. This collection contributes to that scholarship by exploring the figure of the "working-class intellectual," who both assimilates the anti-authoritarian lexicon of the middle classes to create a new political and cultural identity, and revolutionizes it with the subversive energy of class hostility. Through considering a broad range of writings across key moments of working-class self-expression, the essays reevaluate a host of familiar writers such as Robert Burns, John Thelwall, Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Ann Yearsley, and even Shakespeare, in terms of their role within a working-class constituency. The collection also breaks fresh ground in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship by shedding light on a number of unfamiliar and underrepresented figures, such as Alexander Somerville, Michael Faraday, and the singer Ned Corvan.

Education in Britain, 1750–1914

Education in Britain, 1750–1914
Author: W B Stephens
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 231
Release: 1999-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1349272310

This concise study covers the development of education throughout Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Great War: a period in which urbanization, industrialization and population growth posed huge social and political problems, and education became one of the fiercest areas of conflict in society.

Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult and Continuing Education

Twentieth Century Thinkers in Adult and Continuing Education
Author: Jarvis Peter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2001-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136745084

An examination of the work of 17 major thinkers in the field of adult and continuing education, showing how each has made a significant contribution to the field. The ideas of each are explored within a similar framework, and their work and its consequences is considered in detail.

Handbook of Historical Studies in Education

Handbook of Historical Studies in Education
Author: Tanya Fitzgerald
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-04-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9789811023613

This book offers an in‐depth historiographical and comparative analysis of prominent theoretical and methodological debates in the field. Across each of the sections, contributors will draw on specific case studies to illustrate the origins, debates and tensions in the field and overview new trends, directions and developments. Each section includes an introduction that provides an overview of the theme and the overall emphasis within the section. In addition, each section has a concluding chapter that offers a critical and comparative analysis of the national case studies presented. As a Handbook, the emphasis is on deeper consideration of key issues rather than a more superficial and broader sweep. The book offers researchers, postgraduate and higher degree students as well as those teaching in this field a definitive text that identifies and debates key historiographical and methodological issues. The intent is to encourage comparative historiographical perspectives of the nominated issues that overview the main theoretical and methodological debates and to propose new directions for the field.

Working-Class Formation

Working-Class Formation
Author: Ira Katznelson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0691228221

Applying an original theoretical framework, an international group of historians and social scientists here explores how class, rather than other social bonds, became central to the ideologies, dispositions, and actions of working people, and how this process was translated into diverse institutional legacies and political outcomes. Focusing principally on France. Germany, and the United States, the contributors examine the historically contingent connections between class, as objectively structured and experienced, and collective perceptions and responses as they develop in work, community, and politics. Following Ira Katznelson's introduction of the analytical concepts, William H. Sewell, Jr., Michelle Perrot, and Alain Cottereau discuss France; Amy Bridges and Martin Shefter, the United States; and Jargen Kocka and Mary Nolan, Germany. The conclusion by Aristide R. Zolberg comments on working-class formation up to World War I, including developments in Great Britain, and challenges conventional wisdom about class and politics in the industrializing West.

The working class in mid-twentieth-century England

The working class in mid-twentieth-century England
Author: Ben Jones
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1526130300

This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century. National trends in employment, welfare and living standards are illuminated via a focus on Brighton, providing valuable new perspectives of class and community formation. Based on fresh archival research, life histories and contemporary social surveys, the book historicises important cultural and community studies which moulded popular perceptions of class and social change in the post-war period. It shows how council housing, slum clearance and demographic trends impacted on working-class families and communities. While suburbanisation transformed home life, leisure and patterns of association, there were important continuities in terms of material poverty, social networks and cultural practices. This book will be essential reading for academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography.

Miseducation

Miseducation
Author: Diane Reay
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2017-10-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 144733065X

In this book Diane Reay, herself working-class-turned-Cambridge-professor, presents a 21st-century view of education and the working classes. Drawing on over 500 interviews, the book includes vivid stories from working-class children and young people. It looks at class identity, and the effects of wider economic and social class relationships on working-class educational experiences. The book reveals how we have ended up with an educational system that still educates the different social classes in fundamentally different ways and, vitally, what we can do to achieve a fairer system. Book jacket.

The Working-class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain

The Working-class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain
Author: Aruna Krishnamurthy
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754665045

This collection of essays contributes to scholarship on the emergence of the working classes, by filtering the formation of working-class identity through the rise of the working-class intellectual, a unique cultural figure at the crossroads of two disparate worlds. The essays cover a range of familiar and unfamiliar figures from the 1730s to the 1850s, shedding light on key moments of working-class self-expression.

Constructing Educational Inequality

Constructing Educational Inequality
Author: Peter Foster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2005-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135719136

The issue of educational opportunity has long been of public concern and a major focus for eduational research. As a result, there is now a substantial body of research findings in this field, both quantitative and qualitative.; This work relates to various levels of the educational system and to different categories of student, but particularly social class, gender, ethnicity and race. The central trend has been to find persisting inequalities despite reform at system, institutional and classroom levels. Furthermore, the educational system is frequently portrayed as playing a key role in reproducing wider social and economic inequalities.; This book examines the status of educational inequality as a social problem, explores the conceptual issues surrounding it, assesses a representative sample of recent research, and seeks to clarify the relevant methodological ground rules, thereby laying the basis for future research in the field.