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Inside the ‘blackboard jungle': male teachers and male pupils at English secondary modern schools in fact and fiction, 1950 to 1959

Tisdall, Laura

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Laura Tisdall



Abstract

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 part of the well-documented 1950s moral panic about youth but in relation to the popularized psychological concepts of the ‘normal’ and ‘deviant’ child and the increasing implementation of progressive educational ideas that artificially limited working-class pupils’ horizons. This makes this period not only another reiteration of the perennial moral panics about the rising generation that Geoffrey Pearson has documented, but an emergence of a new way of conceptualizing youth.

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Tisdall, L. (2015). Inside the ‘blackboard jungle': male teachers and male pupils at English secondary modern schools in fact and fiction, 1950 to 1959. Cultural and Social History, 12(4), 489-507. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2015.1088265

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Mar 24, 2016
Publication Date Oct 2, 2015
Deposit Date Oct 19, 2017
Publicly Available Date Dec 11, 2017
Journal Cultural and Social History
Print ISSN 1478-0038
Electronic ISSN 1478-0046
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 12
Issue 4
Pages 489-507
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2015.1088265

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