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Welsh Not : Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Nineteenth-Century Wales / Martin Johnes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnes, Martin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Elementary.
- Education, Elementary--Activity programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- The Welsh Not was a wooden token given to children caught speaking Welsh in nineteenth-century schools.It was often accompanied by corporal punishment, and is widely thought to have been responsible for the decline of the Welsh language.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- List of tables
- 1 The Welsh Not in History and Memory
- Remembering the Welsh Not
- The Welsh Not beyond living memory
- Historians and the Welsh Not
- This book
- 2 The Age of the Welsh Not: Language and Punishment before 1862
- The first schools and teachers
- The Welsh Not, Note, Lump and Stick
- A culture of punishment
- The Welsh Not's origins
- The influence of training schools
- Conclusion
- 3 Learning without Understanding: The Problems of Education before 1862
- Learning without understanding
- The practical challenges of teaching
- Welsh in the classroom
- Sunday schools and popular literacy
- 4 The Welsh Not's Afterlife: Punishing Welsh-Speaking after the 1862 Revised Code
- The professionalisation of teaching
- The Welsh Not after 1862
- Punishments for speaking Welsh
- Teaching: 'a very hard occupation'
- Caring power and Welshness
- 5 The Employment of Welsh in Schools after the 1862 Revised Code
- Using Welsh in the classroom
- Ongoing challenges and the evolution of the curriculum
- The formal recognition of Welsh
- 6 Enemies of the Welsh Language? Her Majesty's Inspectors and the British State
- Promoting the use of Welsh: Longueville Jones and the Welsh paper
- Other voices and the Reverend Shadrach Pryce
- The inspectors at work
- The influence of inspectors
- 7 Victims and Rebels: Children and the Welsh Not
- Remembering school and the Welsh Not
- Fighting back: children's agency
- The failures and indignities of education
- The power of education
- 8 Parental and Community Attitudes towards Education and the Welsh Language
- Parental attitudes to education
- Parental agency and attitudes to punishment.
- Parents and the Welsh Not
- School boards and managers
- 9 Education and the Anglicisation of Wales
- Language and communities
- The decline of Welsh
- The resilience of Welsh
- The influence of education on language choices
- Britishness beyond English
- Conclusion: the Welsh Not, the state, colonialism and language shifts
- Picture Section
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC:
- 1499394108
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