The Work of Teachers and Others in and around a Birmingham Slum School 1891-1920

Autor/in	Wright, Susannah
Titel	The Work of Teachers and Others in and around a Birmingham Slum School 1891-1920
Quelle	In: History of Education, 38 (2009) 6, S.729-746 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
Schlagwörter	Slum Schools; Historiography; Poverty; Case Studies; Welfare Services; Elementary Schools; Intervention; Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics; Foreign Countries; Disadvantaged Environment; Recordkeeping; United Kingdom (Birmingham) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschichtsschreibung; Armut; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Diskursanalyse; Soziolinguistik; Ausland; Leistungsnachweis
Abstract	The "Floodgate Street area" was a notorious slum district in the city of Birmingham in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article presents a case study, drawing on the rich archival sources available for this area, to examine the language that local authority and voluntary workers used to describe the local area, and their engagement with local children in terms of welfare provision and punitive measures. The work of teachers at Floodgate Street School is located within a local discourse of urban poverty, and within local attempts to improve conditions for the inhabitants of slum areas. Local activities and discussions are contextualized within broader debates concerning slums and patterns of welfare. This article places schools at the center of a historiography of urban poverty and welfare from which education is largely absent. It explores the possibilities, and limitations, of using the local archival record for this sort of analysis. (Contains 106 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10