Laura Tisdall

A progressive education? (eBook, ePUB)

How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526132918
• Artikelnr.: 58041106

Autorenporträt

Laura Tisdall is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at Queen Mary University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The rise and fall of
progressive education? 1 What is a progressive education? 2 Stages of
development, educational psychology and child-centred education 3 'Trendy,
airy-fairy methods': teachers' resistance to progressive education 4 A
half-reformed education?: teaching practice and local change 5 Primary
school teachers, gender and concepts of childhood 6 Secondary school
teachers, class and status 7 The 'backlash' against progressivism
Conclusion: the reinvention of childhood? Bibliography Notes