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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)
Journal Article
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.

Introduction: Themes in Arts Education, 1890–1950 (2021)
Book Chapter
Howlett, J., & Palmer, A. (2021). Introduction: Themes in Arts Education, 1890–1950. In J. Howlett (Ed.), Unfolding Creativity (1-29). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75738-0_1

The introduction presents an overview of the history of arts education in English schools from 1890 to 1950. It explains and justifies the choice of exploring this further through the biographies of nine pioneers from the areas of music, drama and th... Read More about Introduction: Themes in Arts Education, 1890–1950.

Conclusion: Arts Education Today (2021)
Book Chapter
Howlett, J., & Palmer, A. (2021). Conclusion: Arts Education Today. In J. Howlett (Ed.), Unfolding Creativity (235-252). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75738-0_11

The conclusion recounts the history of arts education from 1950 to the current day. It looks at recent developments in arts education and the perceived crisis facing the subjects in English schools. It revisits the themes of progressive education, id... Read More about Conclusion: Arts Education Today.

The spiritual life and educational philosophy of Lord Lytton (2021)
Journal Article
Howlett. (2021). The spiritual life and educational philosophy of Lord Lytton. History of Education, 1 - 18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2021.1889694

This article addresses the life and educational thinking of Victor Lytton, second Earl of Lytton, who not only involved himself in a wide number of social causes but was instrumental in contributing to the development of progressive education in the... Read More about The spiritual life and educational philosophy of Lord Lytton.

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.

A social history of educational studies and research (2018)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2019). A social history of educational studies and research. History of Education, 48(3), 422-424. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2018.1474277

‘Interdisciplinarity’ is a term currently very much in-vogue within academic circles with academics encouraged in their work to draw connections between various and disparate disciplines. At university level, much is frequently made of the need to fo... Read More about A social history of educational studies and research.

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.