Who was going to become a teacher? : The socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden 1870–1950
By exploring demographic data on teachers through a Bordieusian lens, this study aims to analyse the socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden depending on gender and type. The rural area under study follows a national development where the number of primarily female te...
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ftumeauniv:oai:DiVA.org:umu-174115 2023-10-09T21:54:29+02:00 Who was going to become a teacher? : The socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden 1870–1950 Marklund, Emil 2021 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174115 https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2020.1760946 eng eng Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier History of Education, 0046-760X, 2021, 50:1, s. 27-49 orcid:0000-0002-0180-5762 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-174115 doi:10.1080/0046760X.2020.1760946 ISI:000553314000001 Scopus 2-s2.0-85088820808 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Socio-economic background rural primary teachers gender teacher recruitment Sweden History Historia Article in journal info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2021 ftumeauniv https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2020.1760946 2023-09-22T13:53:47Z By exploring demographic data on teachers through a Bordieusian lens, this study aims to analyse the socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden depending on gender and type. The rural area under study follows a national development where the number of primarily female teachers and junior school teachers increased rapidly between 1870 and 1910. The results show an occupational reproduction of teachers between mother and daughter that is not present to the same extent in other parent–child combinations. Furthermore, almost half of the teachers born within the region came from a farming background, yet children of higher professionals showed the highest probability of becoming a teacher. The other group in the upper stratum, higher managers, instead had a very low probability of becoming a teacher. This thus suggests that the teacher track was more associated with a social background representing higher cultural capital rather than economic capital. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Umeå University: Publications (DiVA) History of Education 50 1 27 49 |
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By exploring demographic data on teachers through a Bordieusian lens, this study aims to analyse the socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden depending on gender and type. The rural area under study follows a national development where the number of primarily female teachers and junior school teachers increased rapidly between 1870 and 1910. The results show an occupational reproduction of teachers between mother and daughter that is not present to the same extent in other parent–child combinations. Furthermore, almost half of the teachers born within the region came from a farming background, yet children of higher professionals showed the highest probability of becoming a teacher. The other group in the upper stratum, higher managers, instead had a very low probability of becoming a teacher. This thus suggests that the teacher track was more associated with a social background representing higher cultural capital rather than economic capital. |
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Who was going to become a teacher? : The socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden 1870–1950 |
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Who was going to become a teacher? : The socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden 1870–1950 |
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Who was going to become a teacher? : The socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden 1870–1950 |
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Who was going to become a teacher? : The socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern Sweden 1870–1950 |
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who was going to become a teacher? : the socio-economic background of primary school teachers in northern sweden 1870–1950 |
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