English Teachers in a Postwar Democracy [electronic resource] : Emerging Choice in London Schools, 1945-1965 /
Medway, P.author.
Hardcastle, J.author.
Brewis, G.author.
Crook, D.author.
Conflicting conservative and radical impulses in English society after WWII were played out in microcosm in education. They particularly shaped English teaching, examined in three post-war London schools in a detailed study that uses oral history—interviews with former teachers and students—and documents including mark books and students' work.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Acronyms; Glossary of Terms; A Note on the Index; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Period, the Education System, and the Teaching of English; Chapter 3 Hackney Downs; Chapter 4 Walworth; Chapter 5 Minchenden; Chapter 6 The Three Schools-What We Have Learned; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Notes; Index
Includes index.
Conflicting conservative and radical impulses in English society after WWII were played out in microcosm in education. They particularly shaped English teaching, examined in three post-war London schools in a detailed study that uses oral history—interviews with former teachers and students—and documents including mark books and students' work.
Great Britain—History.
Education—History.
Education.
Higher education.
Democracy.
Social sciences.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Education.
Education, general.
Higher Education.
Democracy.
Social Sciences, general.