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Direct linkCowan, Steven; McCulloch, Gary; Woodin, Tom – History of Education, 2012
This paper examines the connections between the school building programme in England and the raising of the school leaving age (ROSLA) from 14 to 15 in 1947 and then to 16 in 1972. These two major developments were intended to help to ensure the realisation of "secondary education for all" in the postwar period. The combination led in practice to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Age, Secondary Education
Woodin, Tom – History of Education, 2007
Recent decades have witnessed the waning fortunes of social class as a historical category of analysis. In particular working-class education is rarely discussed in historiography although there has been significant work done in this area, particularly in adult education and literacy. A reassessment of these studies allows us to examine the ways…
Descriptors: Social Change, Historiography, Social Class, Feminism
Woodin, Tom – History of Education, 2005
The Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers was set up in 1976 by a number of independent writing and publishing groups to support and develop the writing of working class and other marginalized people. Focusing on the development of individuals within a collective organization over the previous three decades provides important…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Workshops, Working Class, Writing Difficulties
Woodin, Tom – History of Education, 2005
This paper charts the emergence of community publishing and worker writer groups in England in the early 1970s. These workshops supported working class and marginalized people to express their personal experience through poetry, prose, autobiography and history, a process with significant educational, cultural, political and social implications.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poetry, Working Class, Autobiographies
