Kay-Shuttleworth: Quantitative Comparative Educator
| Autor: | Lewis Spolton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1968 |
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| Zdroj: | Comparative Education Review. 12:84-86 |
| ISSN: | 1545-701X 0010-4086 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/445329 |
| Popis: | THE IMPORTANCE Of Kay-Shuttleworth's work as a comparative educator has been largely overlooked by the historians of the subject, yet his was a most interesting approach. James Phillips Kay (he took the name Kay-Shuttleworth after his marriage in 1842) was born in 1804 and trained as a doctor. While practicing medicine in Manchester, he became interested in the moral and physical conditions of the working classes and pauper children. In 1835 he left his practice to become Assistant Commissioner to the Central Poor Law Board. Observing the effects of detaining children in workhouses along with adults, he decided that schools and better trained teachers were necessary to mitigate the problem of "hereditary pauperism." Thus began his interest in schools, curricula, and methods of instruction. In 1837 he went to Scotland to study the Scottish system of education and methods of training teachers, and in 1838 he paid two visits to Holland on a similar errand. After his appointment, in 1839, to be the first Secretary of the newly formed Education Department he made a three month's tour in Europe (accompanied by E. Tufnell) visiting schools and other educational institutions in Holland, France, Prussia, Saxony, and Switzerland. A detailed report of part of the itinerary is to be found in his report on the training school at Battersea.' Kay set out to study two problems: the provision of elementary education and the training of teachers for elementary schools. His solution for the teacher training problem involved a wholesale, eclectic borrowing of the kind later condemned by M. Sadler.2 However the problem of elementary education was tackled in a completely different manner. Having studied a number of countries at first hand and also read the literature (he learned German in order to read the available educational material and records--"we bought every book which we thought would be useful in our future labours"),, Kay set up an hypothesis |
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