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Book SynopsisA timely consideration of how children's and young people's education can confront and challenge social inequality -- .
Trade Review‘Radical Childhoods will be of interest to those working within the field of the history of education but also those with interests in sociology and education more broadly. The clear, concise introduction, in particular, in which Gerrard situates the work within a contemporary policy context and in relation to debates about the nature of social class, is widely applicable and will find relevance and interest from students and researchers at all levels.’
Kate Spencer-Bennett, University of Birmingham, History of Education, December 2016
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Table of ContentsPart I: Radical education, childhood and social change
1. Introduction: radical education, past and present
2. Children’s education and the struggle for social change
Part II: Socialist Sunday schools, 1892–1930
3. Introduction
4. ‘Waken, children, waken! justice be your aim!’: the creation of a children’s socialist movement and the ‘religion of socialism’
5. For the workers’ battles are our battles’: challenges and critiques, internationalism, and women’s work
Part III: Black Saturday schools, 1967–90
6. Introduction
7. ‘Give them pride in their blackness’: the emergence of the black Saturday school movement and real and imagined black educational communities
8. ‘We are our own educators!’: black educational authority, gender, and community control
Part IV: Conclusion
9. Radical childhoods and the struggle over education
Index
