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Taylor & Francis Ltd English Primary Education and the Progressives 1914-1939 2007 Edition by R J W Selleck
Originally published 1972.This book concerns the progressive movement, its prominent thinkers and its achievements, at a period of vital change in English primary education. The role of progressive educationists, such as Lane, Neill and Montessori is considered. The author asserts that these pioneers gradually made themselves the intellectual orthodoxy in the years between the wars.