Introduction educationalists when he stated in a second edition of his book A Path to
Freedom in the School (1914), renamed The Child's Path to Freedom, in 1921, that the …

This state of the field article presents three questions for students and scholars of childhood:
first, who is included in the history of childhood? Second, why does the history of childhood …

Both education and parenting became increasingly 'child-centred', or 'progressive', in post-
war England. This article contends that the impact of this shift for concepts of childhood, and …

The 1950s saw a wave of depictions of threatening male working-class adolescents in
English novels, films and cartoons. However, these texts must be contextualised not only as …

Historians and sociologists who have utilized self-narratives have frequently encountered
the dilemma of providing either extensive quotation without analysis, or selective quotation …

British working‐class adolescent girls wrote about their imagined futures in thousands of
essays throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Producing narratives that were intended for the …

'“Give the child freedom,” is the insistent cry of the New Education', wrote Homer Lane in
Talks to Parents and Teachers in 1928.'[B] ut then its exponents usually devise a “system” …

A sudden influx of portrayals of 'extraordinary children'emerged in British science fiction after
the Second World War. Such children both violated and confirmed the new set of …

Depictions of children in British science fiction and horror films in the early 1960s introduced
a new but dominant trope: the 'extraordinary'child. Extraordinary children, I suggest, are …

Introduction educationalists when he stated in a second edition of his book A Path to
Freedom in the School (1914), renamed The Child's Path to Freedom, in 1921, that the …