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Inside the ‘blackboard jungle’
- Abstract:
- The 1950s saw a wave of depictions of threatening male working-class adolescents in English novels, films and cartoons. However, these texts must be contextualised not only as part of the well-documented 1950s moral panic about youth but in relation to the popularized psychological concepts of the ‘normal’ and ‘deviant’ child and the increasing implementation of progressive educational ideas that artificially limited working-class pupils’ horizons. This makes this period not only another reiteration of the perennial moral panics about the rising generation that Geoffrey Pearson has documented, but an emergence of a new way of conceptualizing youth.
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- 10.1080/14780038.2015.1088265
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- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Cultural and Social History More from this journal
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 489-507
- Publication date:
- 2016-03-24
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1478-0038, 1478-0046
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
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reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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