Life in public schools / Geoffrey Walford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walford, Geoffrey.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Education.

Routledge library editions: education ; 204

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Endowed public schools (Great Britain).

Private schools--Great Britain.

Private schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Britain's public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country's social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s - this books shows how they were in the late 1980s. It is based on fieldwork in two major public boarding schools which the author conducted over an extended period, and draws on interviews, observation and documentary sources to establish a picture of what public school life is actually like for pupi

Contents:

LIFE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS; Copyright; LIFE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Public schools and independent schools; 2 Everyday life in public schools; 3 Home from home - the boys; 4 Goodbye, Mr Chips - the schoolmasters; 5 The medieval baron in his castle - the public school housemaster; 6 Girls in a male world; 7 Women in a male world; 8 Examinations and the formal curriculum; 9 A revolution in chains; 10 Life in public schools?; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

First published in 1986 by Methuen.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-136-46194-9

1-280-67592-6

9786613652850

0-203-12733-1

1-136-46195-7

9780203127339

OCLC:

798530415