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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793971303321

Autore

Tisdall Laura

Titolo

A progressive education? : how childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools / / Laura Tisdall [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-5261-5041-7

1-5261-3290-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 pages)

Collana

Manchester scholarship online

Disciplina

370.92

Soggetti

Progressive education - England - History - 20th century

Progressive education - Wales - History - 20th century

Teaching - England - History - 20th century

Teaching - Wales - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.