Stories of Adolescence, Counselling and English State Schools From To Sir, with Love to Waterloo Road

Spanning from the end of the Second World War to the present day, this book discusses theories of adolescent development and case studies of child-centredness from novels, television and film to interrogate English secondary state schools' approaches to the 'good' development of their students.The author weaves discussion of the development of schools-based counselling, beginning in the 1960s, to ...