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Accepted Paper:
Inscribing minds: card-boards, copy-books and rote learning in early nineteenth century monitorial schools
Jana Tschurenev
(ETH Zürich)
Paper short abstract:
The paper analyses some pedagogical technologies introduced in early 19th century elementary schools, contrasting schools set up for "the poor" in Britain with those promoted by missionaries and educational reformers in Bengal. How were schools to function as "moral and intellectual machines"?
Paper long abstract:
In the early nineteenth century, educational reformers in Britain as well as India designed schools as "moral and intellectual machines" for reshaping the minds of the working class at home and the colonial subjects abroad. This paper analyses the new educational technologies which aimed to serve that purpose, especially the introduction of copy-books. It thereby raises questions of how exactly educators tried to pursue their moralizing agenda, how the new technologies of schooling - which crucially shaped the repertoire of modern schooling until today - were supposed to work, and how they might have worked in reality.
Panel
P15
Re-forming subjects: colonial and national approaches to moral education, 18th to mid-20th century
Session 1