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9780521134842

Progressive Retreat: A Sociological Study of Dartington Hall School 1926–1957 and some of its former pupils

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521134842

  • ISBN10:

    0521134846

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-03-11
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction on behalf of Dartington Hall trustees
Introduction: the children of the new era
Looking Back at the School
An historical sketch of the school 1926-1957
The parents
The children
Social control
The children's world
The academic system and the staff
Life After School
Leaving school
Work
Marriage and children
The progressive life-style
Conclusion: Dartington, the progressives, and the anti-institution
Bibliography
Index
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