The Rustic Man

The Rural Schoolmaster in Nineteenth-Century France

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ID2107265
AuthorsC R Day (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume25
Issue1
Pages26-49
Publication date1983-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s001041750001029x
OpenAlexW2104364966
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited9

Historians who have studied French primary education during the nineteenth century, Maurice Gontard, Jacques and Mona Ozouf, and Peter Meyer, have noted the great gains made by theinstituteursand their growing professional-ization from the time of the law of 1833 to the law of the 1880s.Improvements in the quality of teaching derived mainly from the introduction of a national system of normal schools (écoles normales primaires) by the Law on Primary Education of 1833. This article will discuss the history, programs, and organization of these schools and the origin and backgrounds of their students. It will also examine 280 essays written by schoolmasters in 1861 on the state of primary education in the towns and villages of France; thesemémoires, written for the most part by graduates of the normal schools, provide first-hand insight into the teacher himself, his professional goals and sense of mission, and how he viewed the world around him in the middle of the last century

Epistemology · Political science · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Classics · Historical Education and Society · Historical Education Studies Worldwide · History · History of Education Research in Brazil · Law · Philosophy

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