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## List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xv List of Abbreviations xvii 1 Does childhood have a future -or a past? 1 2 What does society expect from schooling? 17 3 How far should the state interfere in education? 31 4 How much influence should religion have in schools? 45 5 Why do children misbehave? 65 6 How are children to be taught? 79 7 Why have girls (and boys) underachieved in education? 95 8 Why has citizenship education within the national curriculum been so contentious? 111 9 Should sex and relationships education be part of the school curriculum? 125 10 Should schools be feeding their pupils? 145 11 Has elementary teaching ever been a profession? 159 12 What might schools be like in the future? 177 References 189 Index 201 M y thanks go to many librarians and archivists over the years who have beavered away to field my sometimes strange enquiries and to help wherever they can. Their work in preserving at times one of the only copies of a volume still extant, and thus the last remaining memories of the ideas within its covers, cannot be underestimated. In the present case, I would also particularly acknowledge those who have tried to help with illustrations.
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- Author
- John T Smith, (Dr.)
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474268769
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, History
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