Teacher Unions, (Neo)Liberalism and the State: The Perth County Conspiracy of 1885

• Autores: Harry Smaller
• Localización: Paedagogica Historica: International journal of the history of education, ISSN 0030-9230, Vol. 40, Nº. Extra 1-2, 2004 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Secondary education : institutional, cultural and social history), págs. 75-91
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1885, following a period of severe economic depression and social unrest in colonial Canada, state teachers in rural Perth County, Ontario met and formed the nucleus of what could clearly be described as a teachers' union. The idea spread quickly, and within six months the founding convention of a province-wide union was held in Toronto. Understandably, state officials were not pleased, and worked assiduously over the ensuing months to counter this movement. Building on the already-pervasive official discourse of individualized �professional responsibility�, these officials began hinting about the possibility of teachers being �blessed� with a state-sanctioned �College of Preceptors� � a strategy that had previously been employed in England for a similar purpose. This article attempts to describe these events (and their sad outcomes), within the context of a review of the origins of state schooling systems, recent theory related to governmentality and individual (self-)regulation, and recent schooling �reforms� being undertaken concomitant with the (continuing) globalization of neo-liberal regimes of governance