
Progressive Retreat
A Sociological Study of Dartington Hall School 1926-1957 and some of its former pupils
Maurice Punch(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 11. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
196 pages
978-0-521-13484-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1926, Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst founded Dartington Hall School. Next to Summerhill it was the most influential and important independent school in England when this book was published in 1977. As such it represents a rich vein of alternative education sponsored by middle-class liberal intellectuals in an attempt to escape the orthodoxy of state educational provision. Yet, little evidence existed as to whether these experimental ventures actually worked or even how they might be evaluated. This book represents a fresh attempt to apply explicitly sociological methods to these questions. Maurice Punch critically scrutinises progressive education's avowed aims to revolutionise the school, to save society from its own destruction, and to produce a renewed type of man and woman.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
293 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-13484-2 (9780521134842)
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Maurice Punch
Progressive Retreat
A Sociological Study of Dartington Hall School 1926-1957 and some of its former pupils
Book
04/1977
Cambridge University Press
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Maurice Punch
Progressive Retreat
A Sociological Study of Dartington Hall School 1926-1957 and some of its former pupils
Book
04/1977
Cambridge University Press
€13.00
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Person
Maurice Punch is Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, LSE, and Visiting Professor at the Law School, King's College London. He is the author of Shoot to Kill: Exploring Police Use of Firearms (2010) and Police Corruption: Deviance, Accountability and Reform in Policing (2009).
Content
Acknowledgements; Introduction on behalf of Dartington Hall trustees; 1. Introduction: the children of the new era; Part I. Looking Back at the School; 2. An historical sketch of the school 1926-1957; 3. The parents; 4. The children; 5. Social control; 6. The children's world; 7. The academic system and the staff; Part II. Life After School; 8. Leaving school; 9. Work; 10. Marriage and children; 11. The progressive life-style; 12. Conclusion: Dartington, the progressives, and the anti-institution; Bibliography; Index.