{"product_id":"the-social-world-of-the-school-education-and-community-in-interwar-london-9781526150752","title":"The Social World of the School: Education and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider concerns of modern 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 concerns were framed a century ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Hester Barron puts the school back where it belongs, as the heart of communities, in the period when the primary school became the most significant and most appreciated state institution in most people's lives, a harbinger of later prized welfare-state institutions.  The result is a vivid and eloquent social history of interwar London viewed through its children, their parents and their teachers.'\u003cbr\u003ePeter Mandler,                    Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fascinating study demonstrates just how many answers there can be to the question ‘what are schools for?’ and will be valuable to anyone with an interest in the history of childhood and education as well as those working on interwar Britain more broadly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of the Social History Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMap of Inner London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I School and community\u003cbr\u003e1 The school as a community\u003cbr\u003e2 The school in the community\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II What were schools for?\u003cbr\u003e3 Preparing for the future\u003cbr\u003e4 Fighting poverty\u003cbr\u003e5 Brightening lives\u003cbr\u003e6 Making citizens\u003cbr\u003e7 Teaching morals\u003cbr\u003e8 A sense of place\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041015890263,"sku":"9781526150752","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526150752.jpg?v=1750948608","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-social-world-of-the-school-education-and-community-in-interwar-london-9781526150752","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}