TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, class and school teacher education from the mid-nineteenth century to 1970
T2 - Scenes from a town in the North of England
AU - Fisher, Roy
PY - 2019/11/2
Y1 - 2019/11/2
N2 - This paper considers gender and social class in relation to teacher education through an episodic study of the development of adult educational institutions in Huddersfield. It briefly discusses nineteenth-century mechanics’ institutes in the town before moving to a consideration of school teacher training college students in the twentieth century, highlighting aspects of the gendered and cultural ethos of teacher training. Local efforts to establish teacher training, and the wartime presence in the town of an evacuated women’s teacher training college, provide a prism for the examination of transitions in social attitudes towards teaching as a profession, as do the educational aspirations of local working-class grammar school girls and boys during the 1940s/1950s. The paper then focuses on the establishment in 1963 of a ‘new kind’ of non-residential teacher training college and, in particular, on its introduction in the late 1960s of part-time provision designed specifically for ‘married women’.
AB - This paper considers gender and social class in relation to teacher education through an episodic study of the development of adult educational institutions in Huddersfield. It briefly discusses nineteenth-century mechanics’ institutes in the town before moving to a consideration of school teacher training college students in the twentieth century, highlighting aspects of the gendered and cultural ethos of teacher training. Local efforts to establish teacher training, and the wartime presence in the town of an evacuated women’s teacher training college, provide a prism for the examination of transitions in social attitudes towards teaching as a profession, as do the educational aspirations of local working-class grammar school girls and boys during the 1940s/1950s. The paper then focuses on the establishment in 1963 of a ‘new kind’ of non-residential teacher training college and, in particular, on its introduction in the late 1960s of part-time provision designed specifically for ‘married women’.
KW - Teacher education
KW - Class
KW - Gender
KW - Colleges of education
KW - Mechanics’ institutes
KW - colleges of education
KW - gender
KW - mechanics’ institutes
KW - class
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063145899&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0046760X.2019.1584649
DO - 10.1080/0046760X.2019.1584649
M3 - Article
VL - 48
SP - 806
EP - 818
JO - History of Education
JF - History of Education
SN - 0046-760X
IS - 6
ER -