'"Navvy" Import Alions [Sic]': The Schooling of Navvy Children in the Midlands in the 1890s

Autor/in	Ayres, Bryan John
Titel	'"Navvy" Import Alions [Sic]': The Schooling of Navvy Children in the Midlands in the 1890s
Quelle	In: History of Education, 46 (2017) 4, S.419-435 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
DOI	10.1080/0046760X.2016.1219771
Schlagwörter	Rural Schools; Urban Schools; Rural Urban Differences; Educational Finance; Attendance; Compulsory Education; Student Records; Teacher Attitudes; Student Mobility; Educational History; Child Behavior; Life Style; Admission (School); Educational Resources; Educational Attainment; Elementary School Students; Teacher Student Relationship; Foreign Countries; Laborers; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Urban area; Urban areas; Stadtregion; Stadt; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Bildungsfonds; Anwesenheit; Schulpflicht; Schülerakte; Lehrerverhalten; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lebensstil; Bildungsmittel; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Ausland
Abstract	The children of navvies were subject to the vagaries of an itinerant lifestyle, and during the latter years of the nineteenth century this invariably affected their relationship with an educational system that mandated compulsory attendance. Based primarily on school records, this article explores the contrasting ways in which teachers perceived navvy children who were admitted to a number of schools during the construction of one particular railway in the mid-1890s. Perceptions concerning the children's behaviour, attendance, abilities and educational progress, together with evidence of the treatment they received, are considered in the context of contemporary attitudes towards the navvy community and aspects of the navvy lifestyle. The admission of navvy children also had logistical implications for schools, and these are assessed in terms of the pressures placed upon financial resources and teaching staff. This illustrates the disparity that could exist between small rural schools and larger schools in urban areas. (As Provided).
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