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Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson (2024)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (in press). Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson. History of Education, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2023.2220309

This paper has as its focus the life and thinking of the educational theorist and schoolmaster J. H. Simpson (1883–1959), who was not only a reforming teacher at Rugby School but was also the first headmaster of the progressive Rendcomb College. His... Read More about Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson.

Freedom, differentialism and the partnership method: the progressive education of Norman MacMunn (2023)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2023). Freedom, differentialism and the partnership method: the progressive education of Norman MacMunn. History of Education, 52(1), 56-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2022.2065538

This article has as its focus the life and thinking of the practitioner and theorist Norman MacMunn (1877–1925), whose experimental work in a number of schools outlined a new conception of freedom and one that drew initially upon the thinking and pra... Read More about Freedom, differentialism and the partnership method: the progressive education of Norman MacMunn.

Histories of everyday life: the making of popular social history in Britain, 1918-1979 (2022)
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Howlett, J. (2023). Histories of everyday life: the making of popular social history in Britain, 1918-1979. History of Education, 52(1), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2022.2070287

This splendidly written and meticulously researched book is an attempt to trace the rise and fall of popular social history in Britain, the most important manifestation of which was the ‘history (or histories) of everyday life’. Whilst such approache... Read More about Histories of everyday life: the making of popular social history in Britain, 1918-1979.

The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures: By Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath. Pp198 + xxiii. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. £81 (hbk). ISBN 978-1350074026 (hbk). (2020)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2021). The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures: By Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath. Pp198 + xxiii. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. £81 (hbk). ISBN 978-1350074026 (hbk). British Journal of Educational Studies, 69(1), 129-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2020.1810482

Review: Mrs Humphrey Ward and Greenian philosophy, by Helen Loader: Helen Loader, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xiv + 281pp., £59.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3030141080; £47.99 (e-book) ISBN 978-3-030-14109-7 (2020)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2021). Review: Mrs Humphrey Ward and Greenian philosophy, by Helen Loader: Helen Loader, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, xiv + 281pp., £59.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-3030141080; £47.99 (e-book) ISBN 978-3-030-14109-7. History of Education, 50(2), 284-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2020.1735535

Henry Caldwell Cook, Creativity and Democratic Learning (2019)
Journal Article
Howlett. (2019). Henry Caldwell Cook, Creativity and Democratic Learning. History of Education Review, 227-241. https://doi.org/10.1108/her-07-2018-0016

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the life and work of a forgotten progressive educator – (Henry) Caldwell Cook who was an English and drama teacher at the Perse School in Cambridge, UK. By looking at his key work The Play Way (1917... Read More about Henry Caldwell Cook, Creativity and Democratic Learning.

Just as I am: a life of J.R. Darling, by Peter Gronn (2019)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2020). Just as I am: a life of J.R. Darling, by Peter Gronn. History of Education, 49(5), 729-731. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2019.1666925

Despite contemporary philosophical and epistemological attempts to question and in some cases undermine the role of biography in our understandings of the past, there remains, still, a strong element of such an approach in the history of education. P... Read More about Just as I am: a life of J.R. Darling, by Peter Gronn.

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)
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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.

Secondary school education in Ireland: histories, memories and life stories, 1922–1967 by Tom O’Donoghue and Judith Harford (2016)
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Howlett, J. (2017). Secondary school education in Ireland: histories, memories and life stories, 1922–1967 by Tom O’Donoghue and Judith Harford. History of Education, 46(1), 139-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2016.1173241

There is something quite apt about the cover of this book, as the image of a bare wooden classroom adorned with antiquated chalk slates, ink-well and a fading globe indicate something of the nature of Irish secondary education which, until as late as... Read More about Secondary school education in Ireland: histories, memories and life stories, 1922–1967 by Tom O’Donoghue and Judith Harford.

Being a historian: an introduction to the professional world of history and History in the making (2014)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2015). Being a historian: an introduction to the professional world of history and History in the making. History of Education, 44(2), 251-255. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2014.969331

As historians of education it ultimately befits us, more so perhaps than those working in cognate historical fields, to consider the purpose of our scholarship. The interchanges at the turn of the century between Gary McCulloch and William Richardson... Read More about Being a historian: an introduction to the professional world of history and History in the making.