Experiences of learning within a twentieth-century radical experiment in education: Prestolee School, 1919-1952

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-218

  Burke, Catherine ^a   Dudek, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77951698690     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054981003696705     Document Type: Article

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1. Prestolee School Archive, deposited at the University of East Anglia, consists of two volumes of photographs and cuttings and one box containing memos, notes and instructions for the teaching of certain subjects in O'Neill's hand. The box also contains books on various topics constructed by the children during the 1930s and 1940s as well as some detailed accounts of the school and the experiences of learning written by pupils for the mathematics academic W. W. Sawyer.
2. Conversations with ex-pupils recorded on 28 August 2008 at Prestolee School. The group consisted of seven men and women who were pupils taught by O'Neill during the 1930s and 1940s.
3. North West Sound Archive. Interview with O'Neill, 1972, recorded by Ken Howarth, Bolton Public Libraries and Archives.
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