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School of Education Science, Education and Social Vision of Five School of Education Science, Education and Social Vision of Five Nineteenth Century Headmasters David Theodore Bottomley This thesis is presented for the Degree of Doctor in Philosophy of Curtin University October 2018 DECLARATION ii ABSTRACT The study investigates how science was used by five nineteenth-century headmasters at a time when the Church of England fought to maintain its historical control of elementary education and its associated Grammar schools resisted attempts to include science in their elementary or secondary curricula; when long hours in mills precluded poor children from education; when class attitudes biased Government enquiries into education and industrial training. It was a time when belief in laissez- faire economics conflicted with the exercise of moral judgements. The headmasters viewed their students as individuals and sought to equip them with worldviews. Their curricula were inspired by their visions for society. They used science, scientific method and practical learning. They liberated subjects from traditional boundaries to provide students with comprehensive understanding of areas of knowledge. They emphasised student self-learning and provided the facilities for it. There were similarities in their radical objectives and methods. They effectively interacted with local communities. Their methods mostly did not survive their school tenures but offer challenging thoughts for science teaching today. Key words: Science education; social positioning; nineteenth century. iii DEDICATION I gratefully remember my parents’ deep contribution to my education. In loving memory of Mrs. Ellen Bottomley (née Foxcroft), 1881-1969 and Rev. William Bottomley, 1882-1966. iv PERSONAL INTEREST IN THIS RESEARCH This study connects me with my Lancashire and Yorkshire parents and grandparents. In the first half of the nineteenth century the County of Lancaster with its major cities of Liverpool and Manchester was a major centre of English cotton spinning, weaving and calico printing. My mother was born in the Lancashire mill town of Blackburn in 1881 and there married my father, a Yorkshireman, born in 1882. During 1889-1891 my mother attended a Girls’ Continuation Class and a largely male Business Class at the Blackburn Technical College. My father was born in Burley Woodhead, Yorkshire and educated in a Methodist school in Leeds. He was variously a wool clerk in a local mill, a salesman in Wales for Singer Sewing Machines, a Methodist lay preacher and an early organiser of the Independent Labour Party. His experiences as a volunteer in the First World War turned him pacifist. For many years, he was minister of the Melbourne Unitarian Church. Of my characters, George Edmondson was born in Lancashire, attended Ackworth School near Leeds in Yorkshire and conducted schools in Blackburn during 1825-40 and in Preston during 1841-7. Kay-Shuttleworth and Edward Frankland were born in Lancashire, and it was in Lancashire that Robert Owen, a Welshman, completed his introduction to the retail and wholesale distribution of cotton goods and learnt to manage a cotton mill. As I write this study I recall fragments of my mother’s descriptions of her early life in the Lancashire mill town of Blackburn where people’s lives were organised by the mills’ whistles and the sounds in the streets were of the workers’ industrial clogs as they hurried to work. My interest in school science curricula began in 1946 when, proudly equipped with a B.Sc., Dip. Ed., I received my first appointment - as Science Master in a private boarding school in New South Wales. The school’s 300 boarders were sons of farmers and graziers. They included many who apart from fear of wartime Japanese attack on Sydney or Melbourne would have been sent to capital city schools. Many expected their employment would be in managing their family properties. My laboratory, built in 1913, accommodated eight students and its old springy floor boards challenged their skills in volumetric analysis. Subject matter on the 1946 New South Wales Government syllabus gave rise to examination questions that had originated in nineteenth century English science teaching. After-school and end-of- v year, week-long, science excursions to industry with my senior students helped bridge an educational gap (Bottomley, 1947). My question for that first study was: If the school were free of the restraints of a Government syllabus, what should I be teaching to meet the needs of those particular boys from their particular rural areas of New South Wales and Victoria that would help them to understand newspaper articles and discussions on matters related to science and which might lay some basis for further learning that would be professionally important for their likely agriculture careers? The results of the study were well received academically (Bottomley, 1948) but, if applied, would have disqualified me from teaching 40% of my curriculum for lack of formal training in the “life” sciences. In December, 1948 I was recruited to manage a small market research company in Melbourne with particular interest in the agriculture market. I have since continued for more than sixty years in social and market research in England, Australia, Myanmar, China, Hong Kong and other Asian countries, alternating my work with studies of school curricula. My second school study was a qualitative enquiry among 28 alumni of my first school, Albury Grammar School, now Scots School, Albury (Bottomley, 2006) (the school changed its name when it became co-educational in 1971).That study showed the alumni in their memories differentiated two universes; the headmaster and their broader school experience as one; teachers and the subjects they taught as the second. In their ratings of subjects they studied and the subject teachers they placed mathematics last and science, last but one. The discriminating word was “passion”. Teachers who brought “passion” to their work were well remembered. “Nothing original about that result”, teachers would say. My third study (Bottomley, 2008) dealt with the wider issue of the development of schools in Australia such as Albury Grammar School where in the 1920’s, some staff and students saw themselves attending the equivalent of a “Great Public School” of England. The overall purpose of this fourth study is a review of five nineteenth headmasters who taught science as an essential part of a “modern” education and who used science as a means of achieving their social visions. It is hoped that the study will raise issues for discussion and develop ideas for current social investigations in the history of science education that might usefully contribute to addressing the persistent concerns about the declining percentages of students pursuing senior school studies in science subjects; to assist students to appreciate vi how science has transformed the physical conditions in which they live, the social orders of our society and their perception of their place in the world. vii CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS In developing the material and testing the method for this study the writer has presented eleven papers, variously at conferences of the Australasian Science and Education Research Association (ASERA), the Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES), a combined meeting of ANZHES and ANME (Australian National Museum of Education), the History of Education Society (U.K.) and has one accepted for the Canadian History of Education Association 20th Biennial Conference in October, 2018. CONFERENCES ANZHES, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, November, 2010 Student Engagement in Science: England, 1750-1850 [relates to Survey Method)] ASERA, Adelaide, South Australia, June, 2011 Robert Owen’s Four-dimensional Curriculum, 1816-18 [relates to Chapter 8] ANZHES, Auckland, November, 2011: The Priest who supported Secular Education in Church schools – Richard Dawes’s Educational practice at King’s Somborne. Hampshire, 1837-49 [relates to Chapter 9] ANZHES, Melbourne University of Technology, Victoria, November, 2012: George Edmondson’s Years before Queenwood College [relates to Chapter 10] ANZHES, Queensland University of Technology, December, 2013 - The Million Missing Children of 1851 – the first U.K. Census of Education [relates to Chapter 3] - A Multi-faceted Social Instrument: the Oxford Middle-class Examinations of 1858 [relates to Chapter 5] - The Metempsychosis of Harmony Hall [relates to Chapter 11] ASERA, Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, July, 2014 Technology as Curriculum: the story of F. W. Sanderson at Oundle School (1892-1922) [relates to Chapter 13] ANZHES, University of Melbourne, December, 2014 Three Innovative Science Curricula – A Discussion [relates to Chapter 9, §9.12, §9.13] ANZHES-ANME, Canberra University, September, 2017. Robert Owen: the Industrial Years and World Heritage Recognition [relates to Chapter 8] U.K. H0ES Conference: Winchester, October, 2017: Quaker Headmaster George Edmondson creates an educational milestone in Hampshire: 1847-1863 [relates to Chapter 10] (Planned) Canadian History of Education Association 20th Biennial Conference, Fredericton, October, 2018. A 19th Century Challenge to Present Education [relates to Chapter 14] PUBLICATIONS Joseph Banks (1742-1820): The Market Researcher whose Client was the British Empire. Australasian Journal of Market & Social Research 20(1), June 2012 [an example of the importance of 18th century science in world affairs and in the exploration and development of Australia] viii The Social Purpose
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