Radical Childhoods

Jessica Gerrard is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne

• Part I: Radical education, childhood and social change1. Introduction: radical education, past and present 2. Children’s education and the struggle for social change Part II: Socialist Sunday schools, 1892–19303. Introduction4. ‘Waken, children, waken! justice be your aim!’: the creation of a children’s socialist movement and the ‘religion of socialism’5. For the workers’ battles are our battles’: challenges and critiques, internationalism, and women’s work Part III: Black Saturday schools, 1967–906. Introduction7. ‘Give them pride in their blackness’: the emergence of the black Saturday school movement and real and imagined black educational communities8. ‘We are our own educators!’: black educational authority, gender, and community controlPart IV: Conclusion9. Radical childhoods and the struggle over education Index

‘Radical Childhoods will be of interest to those working within the field of the history of education but also those with interests in sociology and education more broadly. The clear, concise introduction, in particular, in which Gerrard situates the work within a contemporary policy context and in relation to debates about the nature of social class, is widely applicable and will find relevance and interest from students and researchers at all levels.’Kate Spencer-Bennett, University of Birmingham, History of Education, December 2016