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Primary School Teachers in Nineteenth-Century France: A Study of Professionalization Through Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Peter V. Meyers
Peter V. Meyers*
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Department of History at North Carolina A & T State University
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Over the past few decades, scholars have often considered many of the professions to be the natural offspring of the global processes of modernization. Countless studies relate professional development to the broader currents of technological change or structural differentiation. Moreover, since the professions were seen as having a common parentage, much research has been devoted to identifying the characteristics and developmental patterns that all of them shared.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 1-2 , Spring-Summer 1985 , pp. 21 - 40
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Copyright © 1985 by History of Education Society 

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