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Read, Jane – History of Education, 2013
This article explores how infant school reform took hold in London's schools from the 1890s to the 1930s through examination of the work of two Froebelian head teachers, Elizabeth Mary Shaw and Frances Emily Roe. In contrast to teacher-led rote-learning methods and rigid discipline they implemented play-based activities drawing on children's…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Leadership, Play
Barron, Hester – History of Education, 2013
This article examines the experience of the "school journey", an educational fieldtrip of a fortnight's duration, as practised in London's interwar elementary schools. Established historical debates over perceptions of the countryside in interwar Britain have previously failed to discuss the messages promoted in schools. This article…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Rural Areas, Ideology, Nationalism
Robinson, Wendy – History of Education, 2011
Each summer between 1922 and 1938, up to 500 elementary school teachers from across Britain, and some from overseas, joined together in London for a two-week residential vacation course. Organised by Evans' Brothers Publishers and patronised by leading educationists, politicians and policy-makers, the City of London Vacation Course came to be…
Descriptors: Vacations, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development, Educational Experiments