A progressive education? How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh Schools: by Laura Tisdall, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020, xii + 280 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 5261 3289 5 3.

Tisdall argues that it was the non-utopian version of progressivism that found its way into both primary and secondary sectors of state education by the 1970s and was the cause of public debate over falling standards. This statement raises the potential for further work on the ever-changing status of the teaching profession and the place of teacher education within schools or universities. How childhood changed in mid-twentieth-century English and Welsh Schools: by Laura Tisdall, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020, xii + 280 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 5261 3289 5 3. [Extracted from the article]