Jane Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Roehampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4311-6612 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reimagining teaching in early twentieth century experimental schools, by Alessandra Arce Hai, Helen May, Kristen Nawrotzki, Larry Prochner and Yordanka Valkanova
This volume in ISCHE’s Global Histories of Education series contributes to literature adopting a transnational perspective on educational developments. The authors interrogate how the educational a
British Froebelian Women from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Maternalist discourse in nursery nurse training at Wellgarth Nursery Training School from 1911 to 1939
This article explores current dilemmas of status surrounding professional roles for the early years workforce through research into training for nursery nurses at Wellgarth Nursery Training School, London, from 1911 to 1939. It interrogates the issues through the lens of vocational habitus and feminine and emotional capital and draws comparison with contemporary training for Froebel teachers. The data identify maternalist discourse as a common fa…
Transformation and regulation
This article explores policy development for under-fives and its implementation in nursery schools in the first two decades of the twentieth century and draws parallels with current policy initiatives such as Sure Start and the ‘Troubled Families’ programme. It interrogates how discourse on British racial health shaped policy and presents a fresh perspective which builds on existing accounts by examining contemporary rhetoric in the context of pr…
Gutter to Garden
This article investigates interventions in the gutter play of British working class children in the first decade of the 20th century through their re-location within Free Kindergartens. In contemporary literature, the street child was viewed through a binary lens, as both ‘at risk’ and ‘as risk’, reflecting wider societal discourses in a period of rapidly developing social policy. The paper interrogates the motivations of free kindergarten activi…
Historical perspectives on special education, 1890–1970
In the light of continuing controversy over the role of special schools in England, this paper considers the development of special education through examination of evidence from two different geographical areas. Particular reference is made to uncovering the perspectives of those who were subject to the policies – children and their families – drawing on documentary sources, oral history and biographies. The authors highlight how the relative op…
Free Play with Froebel
This article explores the process by which different elements of the material culture of educational settings, including learning tools, classroom design and other aspects of the physical environment that embody a particular educational philosophy, become transmuted when taken over by those with very different pedagogical aims. The article focuses on the adaptation of Froebel's kindergarten pedagogy for the Babies' Classes and Infant Schools esta…
A Challenge for Counsellors
An Analysis of Occupational Ranking by Careers Officers
A Study of the Vi Antigenic Fraction of Typhoid Bacilli Isolated from Carriers and Cases, and the Antibody Content of the Serum of These Patients
A Study of the Vi Antigenic Fraction of Typhoid Bacilli Isolated from Carriers and Cases, and the Antibody Content of the Serum of These Patients Lois Almon, Jane Read, and W. D. Stovall CopyRight*Read before the Laboratory Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La., October 21, 1936. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.27.4.357 Published Online: August 29, 2011
Free Play with Froebel
This article explores the process by which different elements of the material culture of educational settings, including learning tools, classroom design and other aspects of the physical environment that embody a particular educational philosophy, become transmuted when taken over by those with very different pedagogical aims. The article focuses on the adaptation of Froebel's kindergarten pedagogy for the Babies' Classes and Infant Schools esta…
Historical perspectives on special education, 1890–1970
In the light of continuing controversy over the role of special schools in England, this paper considers the development of special education through examination of evidence from two different geographical areas. Particular reference is made to uncovering the perspectives of those who were subject to the policies – children and their families – drawing on documentary sources, oral history and biographies. The authors highlight how the relative op…
A Study of the Vi Antigenic Fraction of Typhoid Bacilli Isolated from Carriers and Cases, and the Antibody Content of the Serum of These Patients
A Study of the Vi Antigenic Fraction of Typhoid Bacilli Isolated from Carriers and Cases, and the Antibody Content of the Serum of These Patients Lois Almon, Jane Read, and W. D. Stovall CopyRight*Read before the Laboratory Section of the American Public Health Association at the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting in New Orleans, La., October 21, 1936. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.27.4.357 Published Online: August 29, 2011
An Analysis of Occupational Ranking by Careers Officers
A Challenge for Counsellors
Historical perspectives on special education, 1890–1970
In the light of continuing controversy over the role of special schools in England, this paper considers the development of special education through examination of evidence from two different geographical areas. Particular reference is made to uncovering the perspectives of those who were subject to the policies – children and their families – drawing on documentary sources, oral history and biographies. The authors highlight how the relative op…
Free Play with Froebel
This article explores the process by which different elements of the material culture of educational settings, including learning tools, classroom design and other aspects of the physical environment that embody a particular educational philosophy, become transmuted when taken over by those with very different pedagogical aims. The article focuses on the adaptation of Froebel's kindergarten pedagogy for the Babies' Classes and Infant Schools esta…
Gutter to Garden
This article investigates interventions in the gutter play of British working class children in the first decade of the 20th century through their re-location within Free Kindergartens. In contemporary literature, the street child was viewed through a binary lens, as both ‘at risk’ and ‘as risk’, reflecting wider societal discourses in a period of rapidly developing social policy. The paper interrogates the motivations of free kindergarten activi…
Transformation and regulation
This article explores policy development for under-fives and its implementation in nursery schools in the first two decades of the twentieth century and draws parallels with current policy initiatives such as Sure Start and the ‘Troubled Families’ programme. It interrogates how discourse on British racial health shaped policy and presents a fresh perspective which builds on existing accounts by examining contemporary rhetoric in the context of pr…
Maternalist discourse in nursery nurse training at Wellgarth Nursery Training School from 1911 to 1939
This article explores current dilemmas of status surrounding professional roles for the early years workforce through research into training for nursery nurses at Wellgarth Nursery Training School, London, from 1911 to 1939. It interrogates the issues through the lens of vocational habitus and feminine and emotional capital and draws comparison with contemporary training for Froebel teachers. The data identify maternalist discourse as a common fa…
British Froebelian Women from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Reimagining teaching in early twentieth century experimental schools, by Alessandra Arce Hai, Helen May, Kristen Nawrotzki, Larry Prochner and Yordanka Valkanova
This volume in ISCHE’s Global Histories of Education series contributes to literature adopting a transnational perspective on educational developments. The authors interrogate how the educational a
Sociology (8 works) · Historical Education Studies Worldwide (5 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · Social science (3 works)