1st Edition

Critical Histories in Care and Education Understanding the Connections Between the English Care and Education Systems from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

By Kate Brooks Copyright 2025
112 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This groundbreaking and thought-provoking book puts the care experience at the centre of education history. Engaging and accessible, Critical Histories in Care and Education provides historical insight to the growing field of care studies and reveals how nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices about care-experienced pupils helped shape education policy and continue to do so today.... Read more

Chapter 1: Understanding care and education

Chapter 2: Workhouses, district schools and the monitorial method in the nineteenth century

Chapter 3: Flat feet and saved souls: Training in the Victorian orphanage

Chapter 4. Mother Empire: Placements, displacement and migration

Chapter 5: Troublesome nippers: Evacuation, the Curtis Report and post-war policies

Chapter 6: The people behind the pedagogies: Influential theorists in progressive education and care

Chapter 7: Fliers, hurdlers, and pedestrians: Leaving education and care

Biography

Kate Brooks is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Bath Spa University and a foster carer. She has worked with national charities on aspects of education and care.