Author: Faye Gardner
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 0237543869
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Anne Richardson explains what life was like as a child at infant school, junior school, and gramma school in England in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior, primary.
School Life in the 1940s and 50s
Author: Faye Gardner
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 0237543869
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Anne Richardson explains what life was like as a child at infant school, junior school, and gramma school in England in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 0237543869
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Anne Richardson explains what life was like as a child at infant school, junior school, and gramma school in England in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes notes for teachers. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Catholic Schools Then and Now
Author: Mary Reardon
Publisher: Badger Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781932542110
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
From the old days of knuckle-cracking nuns to today's more liberal teaching methods, Catholic schools have evolved into the best option even for non-Catholic parents especially if they live in large cities. Author Mary Reardon explores the history of Catholic schools in America, where they are today and where they are headed in the future.
Publisher: Badger Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781932542110
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
From the old days of knuckle-cracking nuns to today's more liberal teaching methods, Catholic schools have evolved into the best option even for non-Catholic parents especially if they live in large cities. Author Mary Reardon explores the history of Catholic schools in America, where they are today and where they are headed in the future.
Shopping in the 1940s
Author: Rebecca Hunter
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 9780237529031
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
'Family Scrapbook' features the memories and photographs of real life grannies. Lively narrative is supported by a wide range of photographs which feature anything from contemporary adverts to pictures of the grandma's with their own parents and grandparents.
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 9780237529031
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
'Family Scrapbook' features the memories and photographs of real life grannies. Lively narrative is supported by a wide range of photographs which feature anything from contemporary adverts to pictures of the grandma's with their own parents and grandparents.
The Best Days of Our Lives
Author: Simon Webb
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752489364
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation's schoolchildren through the two decades following the war years, recalling what it was like for those experiencing the creation of a new school system; a system underpinned by the introduction of the 11 plus exam and the provision of free secondary education for all. Combining personal reminiscences with a lively description of what was going on in the wider world of British education, Simon Webb provides a vivid and entertaining picture of school life during in the 1940s and '50s which is sure to bring back nostalgic memories for all who remember the best days of their lives.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752489364
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation's schoolchildren through the two decades following the war years, recalling what it was like for those experiencing the creation of a new school system; a system underpinned by the introduction of the 11 plus exam and the provision of free secondary education for all. Combining personal reminiscences with a lively description of what was going on in the wider world of British education, Simon Webb provides a vivid and entertaining picture of school life during in the 1940s and '50s which is sure to bring back nostalgic memories for all who remember the best days of their lives.
How Schools Worked
Author: Robert Douglas Gidney
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773539530
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A richly textured study of educational developments in English-speaking Canada from the close of the Victorian Age to the eve of World War II.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773539530
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A richly textured study of educational developments in English-speaking Canada from the close of the Victorian Age to the eve of World War II.
120 Years of American Education
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Sexual Reckonings
Author: Susan Cahn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts. Those years witnessed the birth of a modern awareness of adolescence and female sexuality that clashed mightily with the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South. As youth staked its claim, the bodies and beliefs of southern girls became the battlefield for a transformed South, which was, like them, experiencing growing pains. Cahn reveals how young women, both white and black, were seen as the South's greatest hope and its greatest threat. Viewed as critical actors in every regional crisis, from the economic recession and urban migrations of the 1920s to the racial conflicts precipitated by school desegregation in the 1950s, female teenagers became the conspicuous subjects of social policy and regional imagination. All the while, these adolescents pursued their own desires and discovered their own meanings, creating cracks in the twin pillars of the Jim Crow South--"racial purity" and white male dominance--that would soon be toppled by the student-led civil rights movement. Sexual Reckonings is an amazingly intimate look at a time of deep personal exploration and profound cultural change for southern girls and for the society they inhabited, a powerful account of the clash between a society's fears and the daily lives and aspirations of its most prized, and unpredictable, population.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674063937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Sexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning of adolescence underwent enormous political, economic, and social shifts. Those years witnessed the birth of a modern awareness of adolescence and female sexuality that clashed mightily with the white supremacist and patriarchal legacies of the old South. As youth staked its claim, the bodies and beliefs of southern girls became the battlefield for a transformed South, which was, like them, experiencing growing pains. Cahn reveals how young women, both white and black, were seen as the South's greatest hope and its greatest threat. Viewed as critical actors in every regional crisis, from the economic recession and urban migrations of the 1920s to the racial conflicts precipitated by school desegregation in the 1950s, female teenagers became the conspicuous subjects of social policy and regional imagination. All the while, these adolescents pursued their own desires and discovered their own meanings, creating cracks in the twin pillars of the Jim Crow South--"racial purity" and white male dominance--that would soon be toppled by the student-led civil rights movement. Sexual Reckonings is an amazingly intimate look at a time of deep personal exploration and profound cultural change for southern girls and for the society they inhabited, a powerful account of the clash between a society's fears and the daily lives and aspirations of its most prized, and unpredictable, population.
The Teacher Who Couldn't Read
Author: John Corcoran
Publisher: Brehon Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781938620515
Category : High school teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is John Corcoran's life story of how he struggled through school without the basic skills of how to read or write and went on to become a college graduate and a high school teacher, still without these basic skills. National literacy advocate John Corcoran continues to help bring illiteracy out of the shadows with this autobiography, "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read." It is the amazing true story of a man who triumphed over his illiteracy and who has become one of the nation's leading literacy advocates. His shocking and emotionally moving story-from being a child who was failed by the system, to an angry adolescent, a desperate college student, and finally an emerging adult reader-touched audiences of such national television shows as the Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Phil Donahue Show, and Larry King Live. His story was also featured in national magazines such as Esquire, Biography, Reader's Digest, and People. "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is a gripping tale of triumph over America's national literacy crisis-- a story you'll thoroughly enjoy while being enlightened to a national tragedy.
Publisher: Brehon Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781938620515
Category : High school teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is John Corcoran's life story of how he struggled through school without the basic skills of how to read or write and went on to become a college graduate and a high school teacher, still without these basic skills. National literacy advocate John Corcoran continues to help bring illiteracy out of the shadows with this autobiography, "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read." It is the amazing true story of a man who triumphed over his illiteracy and who has become one of the nation's leading literacy advocates. His shocking and emotionally moving story-from being a child who was failed by the system, to an angry adolescent, a desperate college student, and finally an emerging adult reader-touched audiences of such national television shows as the Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Phil Donahue Show, and Larry King Live. His story was also featured in national magazines such as Esquire, Biography, Reader's Digest, and People. "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read" is a gripping tale of triumph over America's national literacy crisis-- a story you'll thoroughly enjoy while being enlightened to a national tragedy.
Sex Goes to School
Author: Susan K. Freeman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
When seeking approaches for sex education, few look to the past for guidance. But Susan K. Freeman's investigation of the classrooms of the 1940s and 1950s offers numerous insights into the potential for sex education to address adolescent challenges, particularly for girls. From rural Toms River, New Jersey, to urban San Diego and many places in between, the use of discussion-based classes fostered an environment that focused less on strictly biological matters of human reproduction and more on the social dimensions of the gendered and sexual worlds that the students inhabited. Although the classes reinforced normative heterosexual gender roles that could prove repressive, the discussion-based approach also emphasized a potentially liberating sense of personal choice and responsibility in young women's relationship decisions. In addition to the biological and psychological underpinnings of normative sexuality, teachers presented girls' sex lives and gendered behavior as critical to the success of American families and, by extension, the entire way of life of American democracy. The approaches of teachers and students were sometimes predictable and other times surprising, yet almost wholly without controversy in the two decades before the so-called Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. Sex Goes to School illuminates the tensions between and among adults and youth attempting to make sense of sex in a society that was then, as much as today, both sex-phobic and sex-saturated.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252091280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
When seeking approaches for sex education, few look to the past for guidance. But Susan K. Freeman's investigation of the classrooms of the 1940s and 1950s offers numerous insights into the potential for sex education to address adolescent challenges, particularly for girls. From rural Toms River, New Jersey, to urban San Diego and many places in between, the use of discussion-based classes fostered an environment that focused less on strictly biological matters of human reproduction and more on the social dimensions of the gendered and sexual worlds that the students inhabited. Although the classes reinforced normative heterosexual gender roles that could prove repressive, the discussion-based approach also emphasized a potentially liberating sense of personal choice and responsibility in young women's relationship decisions. In addition to the biological and psychological underpinnings of normative sexuality, teachers presented girls' sex lives and gendered behavior as critical to the success of American families and, by extension, the entire way of life of American democracy. The approaches of teachers and students were sometimes predictable and other times surprising, yet almost wholly without controversy in the two decades before the so-called Sexual Revolution of the 1960s. Sex Goes to School illuminates the tensions between and among adults and youth attempting to make sense of sex in a society that was then, as much as today, both sex-phobic and sex-saturated.
Going on a Journey in the 1930s and 40s
Author: Faye Gardner
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 9780237529048
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
'Family Scrapbook' features the memories and photographs of real life grannies. Lively narrative is supported by a wide range of photographs which feature anything from contemporary adverts to pictures of the grandma's with their own parents and grandparents.
Publisher: Evans Brothers
ISBN: 9780237529048
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
'Family Scrapbook' features the memories and photographs of real life grannies. Lively narrative is supported by a wide range of photographs which feature anything from contemporary adverts to pictures of the grandma's with their own parents and grandparents.