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A Progressive Education? argues that ideas about both childhood and adolescence were transformed in English and Welsh schools after WWII. Covering the period 1918 to 1979, this book shows that by putting childhood at the centre of the history of education, we can challenge the stories we tell about how and why schooling itself changed. It has been suggested that the dominance of 'progressive' education after 1945 led to a backlash against permissive attitudes to pupils in both Western Europe and the United States. But British child-centred education, in alliance with developmental psychology, actually shaped a more restrictive and pessimistic image of childhood. Drawing on an extensive range of sources that illuminate teaching practice, from school logbooks to oral histories, this book will be crucial not only for historians and sociologists of modern Britain, but for education professionals and policy-makers.
Author(s): Tisdall L
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Year: 2019
Number of Pages: 296
Print publication date: 30/09/2019
Online publication date: 30/09/2019
Acceptance date: 30/09/2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Place Published: Manchester, UK
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781526132895
