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Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution (2017)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2018). Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution. British Journal of Educational Studies, 66(2), 278-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2017.1400286

Wales, as Philip Dixon in this engaging and occasionally waspish account makes clear, has long been regarded as the Ugly Sister. Too often, educational narratives claiming to represent the United Kingdom in reality have meant just ‘England’ with Wale... Read More about Testing times. Success, failure and Fiasco in education policy in Wales since devolution.

Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon (2017)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2018). Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon. History of Education, 47(3), 436-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2017.1356381

The subtitle of this work – the ‘noiseless revolution’ – comes from the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) who argued that many of the more fundamental cultural revolutions in taste, manners and mores were distant from the processes and... Read More about Schooling in England, 1660 to 1850– Part I: introduction ‘a noiseless revolution’ and Part II: the gazetteer of English schools, by John Cannon.

The Formation, Development and Contribution of the New Ideals in Education Conferences, 1914-1937 (2017)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2017). The Formation, Development and Contribution of the New Ideals in Education Conferences, 1914-1937. History of Education, 459- 479. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2016.1268215

This paper seeks to explore the development, impact and contribution made by the New Ideals in Education conferences, which were held between 1914 and 1937. In particular, it will examine how the group emerged from the English Montessori Society and... Read More about The Formation, Development and Contribution of the New Ideals in Education Conferences, 1914-1937.