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1 cze 2012 · No one, to the best of my knowledge, has investigated the social class origins of U.S. teachers from 1860 to 1920 with nationally representative data, which would make one's understanding of the issue more comprehensive in terms of space and time. This paper leads this line of study.
26 maj 2018 · This chapter locates the classed nature of education within a critical socio-historical framework, and considers how questions of social class are played out not only in the classroom but also at the institutional and the systemic level.
Throughout the history of public education in the US, public schools have filled multiple roles. These roles are an outgrowth of why public schools came into being and how they have evolved. This publication briefly reviews that history.
The paper is divided into four parts. The first section briefly outlines our theoretical and methodological approach and explains the key concepts of social class, habitus and socioculture in more detail. Section two presents and characterizes the social classes we found in the contemporary US.
Many in the 1600s were housewives and widows, barely literate themselves, who organized what were colloqui ally called "dame schools." Working out of their kitchens, they taught simple literacy skills to a handful of neighborhood children for a small fee.
See Charles A. Harper, Development of the Teachers College in the United States (Bloomington, Ill.: McKnight and McKnight, 1935), for a detailed discussion of the conversion of normal schools into full-blown teachers’ colleges. Google Scholar.
those of an established ruling class.Class struggles of this sort can produce a“rev- olutionaryreconstitutionofsociety.”Noticethateachepochcreateswithinitselfthe growth of a new class that eventuallyseizes powerand inaugurates a new epoch.
