The social world of the school:Education and community in interwar London

by: Hester Barron (Author)

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Publication Date: 2022/8/2

Language: English

Print Length: 320 pages

ISBN-10: 1526150751

ISBN-13: 9781526150752

Book Description

This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider conces of mode social history. Drawing on a rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar London, arguing that schools were grounded in their local communities as lynchpins of social life and drivers of change. Exploring crucial questions around identity and belonging, poverty and aspiration, class and culture, behaviour and citizenship, it provides vital context for twenty-first century debates about education and society, showing how the same conces were framed a century ago.

About the Author

This book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider conces of mode social history. Drawing on a rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar London, arguing that schools were grounded in their local communities as lynchpins of social life and drivers of change. Exploring crucial questions around identity and belonging, poverty and aspiration, class and culture, behaviour and citizenship, it provides vital context for twenty-first century debates about education and society, showing how the same conces were framed a century ago.