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Education and the social order: re‐visioning the legacy of Brian Simon

2004; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 33; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0046760042000254488

1464-5130

Peter Cunningham, Jane Martin,

Religious Education and Schools

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Brian dedicated his autobiography to the memory of Sam Fisher, Robin Pedley, Harry Rée, Edward Blishen, Raymond King, Brian Jackson, Margaret Miles, and all co‐fighters for comprehensive secondary education who have passed away. See B. Simon, A Life in Education (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1998). Other disciplinary societies within education also emerged at this period, including the Philosophy of Education society in 1964 and later the British Comparative Education Society in 1979; sociologists of education by contrast found their home as a special interest group within the British Sociological Association. See Obituary, History of Education, 31/4 (2002), 309. Simon, A Life in Education, 8–10, 23. Moreover Hobsbawm suggests the reason Britain in the 1930s was one of the rare countries in which a school of Marxist historians developed was partly due to the passion for literature that filled the space left vacant by the absence of philosophy on the arts side of British sixth forms. This, he suggests, may also help to explain the influence of the anti‐Marxist F.R. Leavis on Cambridge communists who read English. See E. Hobsbawm, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (London: Abacus, 2002), 97. Hobsbawm, Interesting Times, 306. Simon, A Life in Education, 111. See Appendix to this introduction for the list of conference papers: authors and titles. Their partnership, for over 50 years, extended to cooperation in all the interests and spheres of activity previously identified. Studies in the History of Education: Studies in the History of Education, 1780–1870 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1960); Education and the Labour Movement, 1870–1920 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1965); The Politics of Educational Reform, 1920–1940 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1974); Education and the Social Order 1940–1990 (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1991). F.R. Leavis and D. Thompson, Culture and Environment (London: Chatto & Windus, 1933). Although Hobsbawm ends his autobiography with the following admonition to historians: ‘Still, let us not disarm, even in unsatisfactory times. Social injustice still needs to be denounced and fought. The world will not get better on its own.’ See Interesting Times, 418.