Welsh Not : Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Nineteenth-Century Wales

• Autore: Johnes Martin
• Pubblicazione: La Vergne : , : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (458 pages)
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- List of tables -- 1 The Welsh Not in History and Memory -- Remembering the Welsh Not -- The Welsh Not beyond living memory -- Historians and the Welsh Not -- This book -- 2 The Age of the Welsh Not: Language and Punishment before 1862 -- The first schools and teachers -- The Welsh Not, Note, Lump and Stick -- A culture of punishment -- The Welsh Not's origins -- The influence of training schools -- Conclusion -- 3 Learning without Understanding: The Problems of Education before 1862 -- Learning without understanding -- The practical challenges of teaching -- Welsh in the classroom -- Sunday schools and popular literacy -- Conclusion -- 4 The Welsh Not's Afterlife: Punishing Welsh-Speaking after the 1862 Revised Code -- The professionalisation of teaching -- The Welsh Not after 1862 -- Punishments for speaking Welsh -- Teaching: 'a very hard occupation' -- Caring power and Welshness -- Conclusion -- 5 The Employment of Welsh in Schools after the 1862 Revised Code -- Using Welsh in the classroom -- Ongoing challenges and the evolution of the curriculum -- The formal recognition of Welsh -- Conclusion -- 6 Enemies of the Welsh Language? Her Majesty's Inspectors and the British State -- Promoting the use of Welsh: Longueville Jones and the Welsh paper -- Other voices and the Reverend Shadrach Pryce -- The inspectors at work -- The influence of inspectors -- Conclusion -- 7 Victims and Rebels: Children and the Welsh Not -- Remembering school and the Welsh Not -- Fighting back: children's agency -- The failures and indignities of education -- The power of education -- Conclusion -- 8 Parental and Community Attitudes towards Education and the Welsh Language -- Parental attitudes to education -- Parental agency and attitudes to punishment. ; Parents and the Welsh Not -- School boards and managers -- Conclusion -- 9 Education and the Anglicisation of Wales -- Language and communities -- The decline of Welsh -- The resilience of Welsh -- The influence of education on language choices -- Britishness beyond English -- Conclusion: the Welsh Not, the state, colonialism and language shifts -- Picture Section -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Welsh Not
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910978258803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II