A progressive education?

A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales.

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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?

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