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Opinion: To the point - Stuck on Victorian values
Nursery World,
6 December 2007
Old attitudes towards social class and discipline inhibit early education, says Helen Penn.
I have just finished writing a chapter on the UK for a book (Childcare and pre-school development in Europe: Institutional Perspectives, ed. by Kirsten Scheiwe and Harry Willekens, published by Palgrave Macmillan spring 2008) comparing European pre-school institutions since the 19th century. Despite the flurry of activity by the present Government, I am always surprised at how little has changed. English education has always had a preoccupation with regulating children, keeping them off the streets in case they cause trouble, drilling them in the three R's, and...
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