Only talk in the staffroom: 'subversive' teaching in a Scottish school, 1939-40

Locality, Education and Authority in Scotland: 1902-2002 (via 1872)

“…In so doing, it may have been acting ultra vires, adopting the mantle of a quasi-judicial body. The tragi-comic proceedings that followed (culminating in little more than stif y worded warnings to various of those involved) were held with all the puffed-up solemnity, pomposity and vanity that few people who are not local politicians can easily achieve (Limond, 2000).…”

Michael Duane after Risinghill: Rise and fall of an educational celebrity

“…Thus he could be described (not entirely accurately) as 'the man who says if you like breaking windows you should just break them' by a mother giving evidence to an employers' committee investigating several other progressivist teachers and the reference was at once understood. 7 Equally, in the decades after Risinghill's demise, Duane became a byword for certain educational and socio-political values. Celebrity teachers of a different bent have emerged since: heroic managers, suited (pun intended) for an age with a popular taste for technocratic solutions 8 and there have been other provocative and controversial teachers, both of the left 9 and of the right, 10 and more headline grabbing schools.…”