Care and Education for vagrant children in the late nineteenth century England

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26381031
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: SANTOKI MAKIKO 広島大学, 教育学研究科, 准教授 (90335711)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: イギリス教育史 / 浮浪児 / イギリス史 / 教育支援 / 児童福祉

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examines how the local people tried to solve the public problem concerning the treatment of vagrant children in Manchester. In urban society, including Manchester, vagrant children were one of the most serious problems in the maintenance of public order.
The Manchester Certified Industrial Schools was the extremely important place to send vagrant children into the local community.
The children of the Manchester Certified Industrial Schools could apprentice under a master hired by the school and a high percentage of children were able to keep their jobs after leaving the school. The main objective of the Manchester Certified Industrial Schools was not to raise vagrant and destitute children in a more favourable situation or to prevent the children from entering a career of crime but to send the children into society ‘successfully’ as workers.

Free Research Field

教育学