‘Education For All’ on a small island in the Global North

This event is part of the School of Education's . These seminars are free and open to the public.

Hosted by the Education in Small States Research Group (ESSRG)(affiliated with the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE))

Speaker: Angela W Little (Professor Emerita, UCL Institute of Education)

Chair: Michael Crossley (Emeritus Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Bristol, School of Education)

The Isle of Man, located in the North Atlantic Ocean, is classified by Baldacchino (2010) as a ‘subnational island jurisdiction’. Throughout the 19th century, and with a population of c 50,000 persons, it faced a range of issues in the achievement of ‘Education for All’ (i.e. compulsory elementary education).

These included, inter alia, church vs state control of the curriculum and schools, medium of instruction, teacher hiring/firing and training, small schools, isolation and connectivity, resource management and capacity, conflicts of interest, demography, rurality, political autonomy/dependence, legislation, funding and conditional aid.

Were these issues a function of the ‘smallness’ of the Isle of Man, or did they also prevail in the larger territories of the 19th century British Isles?

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