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Historical PapersCommunications historiques

Education, Inspection and State Formation: A PreliminaryStatementPhilip Corrigan and Bruce Curtis

Montréal 1985Volume 20, Number 1, 1985

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/030937arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/030937ar

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Cite this articleCorrigan, P. & Curtis, B. (1985). Education, Inspection and State Formation: APreliminary Statement. Historical Papers / Communications historiques, 20 (1),156–171. https://doi.org/10.7202/030937ar

Article abstractThis paper attempts to draw the attention of sociologists and historians ofeducation to the matter of the form of public schooling. A review of competingmodels of educational development current in the literature shows that neitherpays attention to public schooling as a form of state provided and regulatedschooling. Current models thus neglect the implication of schooling in theorganization of patterns of government. The article argues that publicschooling came to be normalized as what education really was (or should be).To pursue this argument it investigates the inspective function as one of thekey processes whereby public schooling was administered into dominance.While the discussion centres on North American experience, English materialis also discussed in an effort to locate the construction of the educational statein its broader context.

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