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Examine how early Victorian educational policy emerged as an institutional apparatus for exercising social control over the expanding working class.

January 1, 1970Past & Present

Educational Policy and Social Control in Early Victorian England

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Examine how early Victorian educational policy emerged as an institutional apparatus for exercising social control over the expanding working class.
Archival and documentary analysis of nineteenth-century English educational statutes, parliamentary commissions, and inspection minutes.
Qualitative evaluation of institutional mechanisms promoting moral discipline and class regulation within early state-aided elementary schooling.
Educational policy prioritised moral regulation and behavioral containment over broader intellectual development for working-class populations.
School structures and pedagogical routines actively conditioned pupils for industrial labor discipline, reinforcing ruling-class social and political hegemony.

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Historical analysis reveals educational policy functioned as an instrument of social control over the working class in nineteenth-century England, highlighting systemic institutional discipline.

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Richard T. Johnson (1970) studied this question.

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Historical analysis reveals educational policy functioned as an instrument of social control over the working class in nineteenth-century England, highlighting systemic institutional discipline.

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