First published in 1975, this book offers a critique of some of the
'new perspectives' in the sociology of education. This is achieved
through a case study of a progressive child centred school. The
book suggests that a liberal approach to education fails to
appreciate how thoroughly a complex, stratified industrial society
penetrates the school. It argues that the practice of 'progressive'
education may be a modern form of conservativism and an effective
form of social control both in the narrow sense of achieving
classroom discipline and in the wider sense of contributing to the
promotion of a static social order. It cautions against naive
utopian solutions which see the freedom and self-development of the
child as an individualized process, unrelated to a social context
which may undermine the ideals of freedom and spontaneous
self-development. In addition to offering a study of the
implementation of the 'open' approach to child development and
pedagogy, the book can also be read as a piece of critical
sociology, intended to make the reader look again at the way in
which problems have been generated and solutions proposed within
sociology and education.
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