Critical histories in care and education: understanding the connections between the English care and education systems from the nineteenth century to the present day

Brooks, K (2025) Critical histories in care and education: understanding the connections between the English care and education systems from the nineteenth century to the present day. Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781032663012

Abstract

This book puts the care experience at the centre of education history. Engaging and accessible, it provides historical insight to the growing field of care studies and reveals how nineteenth-century assumptions and prejudices about care-experienced pupils helped shape education policy and continue to do so today. Drawing together original archive research with critical theory and written by an academic researcher and writer who is a foster carer herself, the book challenges some of the key myths and stereotypes involving the care experience and shines an illuminating light on their origins. Aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, this book identifies discursive threads and provides a fresh insight through a critical retelling of the history of the care system. In combining the histories of care and education, it challenges some taken-for-granted assumptions about both. Throughout the book, students are invited to critically examine relationships between gender, class, care and work, and how they continue to impact on the role today.

Item Type:	Book
Divisions:	School of Education
Date Deposited:	19 Dec 2024 17:08
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2025 16:30
URI / Page ID:	https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/16765

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