A generation of schooling: English secondary schools since 1944

Type

Book

Authors

Judge, Harry

ISBN 10

0192891804

ISBN 13

9780192891808

Tags

Oxfordshire, Banbury, Education, Schools, 20th century, Teaching, Secondary education, School buildings, Lessons, Teachers, Exams, Pedagogy, Comprehensive education, 1944 Education Act

Abstract

This book describes how English secondary schools have changed in the forty years following the passing of the 1944 Education Act, which abolished fees in state schools and introduced universal secondary education. He sets his account against a background of wider social and political developments and relates it to the lives of his own family and friends, as well as to his own experience as a teacher and educationalist.

Harry Judge was responsible for managing the growth of secondary education in Banbury in the 1960s. He was head of the old Banbury grammar school, so there are many mentions of Banbury in the book.

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