Laura Tisdall
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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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 |
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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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