A01=Laura Tisdall
Adolescence
Author_Laura Tisdall
Category=JNB
Category=NHTB
Childhood
Class
Education
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Gender
Pedagogy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
Quality education
Schooling
Youth
Product details
- ISBN 9781526174567
- Weight: 344g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book 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.
Laura Tisdall is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at Queen Mary University of London
