The Decline and Fall of the Thomas Coram Schools, Berkhamsted, 1935‐1954
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10105976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Ramsland (University of Newcastle Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Educational Administration & History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0620 • E-ISSN: 1478-7431 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0022062950270101 |
| OpenAlex | W2024649340 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article explores the decline and final collapse of the Foundling Hospital tradition of child‐saving between 1935 and 1954 at Berkhamsted and the outdated ideology that underpinned it in the face of the growth of the modern welfare state and new social reforms for children in care. Consideration is given to the problematic persistence of a traditional barracks‐style charitable children's institution and its ideology in a crucial period in the evolution of modern forms of administration of residential child care, with increasing state regulation and intervention and changing forms of provision in foster homes and family group homes. Particular attention will be given to the different institutional aims and regimes to which boys and girls were subjected at Berkhamsted and how they were related to eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century traditions of child rescue and asylum treatment, rather than to the newly emerging approaches, despite the modern facilities of the new buildings provided
Administration (probate law · Aesthetics · Face (sociological concept · Ideology · Institution · Institutional change · Intervention (counseling · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Style (visual arts · Welfare · Welfare state · Child Welfare and Adoption · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |