Outputs (7)

Key questions in education (2016)
Book
Smith, J. (2016). Key questions in education. Bloomsbury Publishing

The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in crisis as more and more teachers contemplate abandoning their careers. Key Questions in Education looks a... Read More about Key questions in education.

Methodism and education (2016)
Book Chapter
Smith, J. T. (2016). Methodism and education. In W. Gibson, P. Forsaith, & M. Wellings (Eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to World Methodism (407-430). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613789

John Wesley once claimed that if the Methodists were not a reading people the work of grace would die out in a generation. Thirty years ago Frank Pritchard described Wesley’s pragmatism, seeing the need for the teaching of reading to enable Bible stu... Read More about Methodism and education.

'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905 (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, J. T. (2014). 'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 46(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2014.856873

This article draws on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century teaching manuals, reports of Her Majesty's Inspectors, history textbooks ('readers'), other administrators' and teachers' accounts, policy documents and pupils' reminiscences to refut... Read More about 'Picturesque and dramatic' or 'dull recitals of threadbare fare': good practice in history teaching in elementary schools in England, 1872-1905.

Faith, class and politics: the role of the churches in teacher training, 1914-1945 by Mark Lofthouse (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, J. (2011). Faith, class and politics: the role of the churches in teacher training, 1914-1945 by Mark Lofthouse. History of education, 40(1), 123-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2010.529080

Ecumenism, economic necessity and the disappearance of Methodist elementary schools in England in the twentieth century (2010)
Journal Article
Smith, J. T. (2010). Ecumenism, economic necessity and the disappearance of Methodist elementary schools in England in the twentieth century. History of education, 39(5), 631-657. https://doi.org/10.1080/00467601003749406

This study aims to define the extent of, and causes for, the decline of the Wesleyan educational effort in England in the twentieth century. In 1902 the Church had 738 schools, but these rapidly declined throughout the century, with only 28 remaining... Read More about Ecumenism, economic necessity and the disappearance of Methodist elementary schools in England in the twentieth century.

A Victorian class conflict? : schoolteaching and the parson, priest and minister, 1837-1902 (2009)
Book
Smith, J. (2009). A Victorian class conflict? : schoolteaching and the parson, priest and minister, 1837-1902. Sussex Academic Press

‘No subject … more neglected’: Victorian elementary school history, 1862–1900 (2009)
Journal Article
Smith, J. T. (2009). ‘No subject … more neglected’: Victorian elementary school history, 1862–1900. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 41(2), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620902808202

A significant positive relationship exists between the ratios of trade and educational spending to gross domestic product, implying that countries which are more open on the trade front also spend more on education. An open economy endogenous growth... Read More about ‘No subject … more neglected’: Victorian elementary school history, 1862–1900.