Reflecting on Social Practice as Research: The Ragged University Project
The following is a piece of work focusing on ‘Practice as Research’ which I wrote whilst on a Masters course at Queen Margaret University. All the work I have done whilst on the course has been work which has been published in more extended, annotated forms on the Ragged University website.
The Waifs of England and Their Contribution to Nineteenth Century Social Reform by Katharine F. Lenroot
For the most part, history has been concerned with great economic, social, and political movements and the men who were involved in them. Only rarely has it portrayed the plight of ragged, hungry, even homeless and abandoned children. Indeed, until recently, and to some degree today, the welfare of children has been on the fringes of public policy. Read more…
