A progressive education?

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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.

Title A progressive education? : how childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh schools / Laura Tisdall.
Publisher Manchester : Manchester University Press
Creation Date 2020
Notes Previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Manchester scholarship online
Extent 1 online resource (293 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010706701705171
MARC RECORDS
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