Hyndman, M. (1980). Utopia Reconsidered: Edmond Holmes, Harriet Johnson and the School at Sompting. Sussex Archaeological Collections 118. Vol 118, pp. 351-357. https://doi.org/10.5284/1086795. Cite this via datacite

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Title:		 Utopia Reconsidered: Edmond Holmes, Harriet Johnson and the School at Sompting
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Issue:		 Sussex Archaeological Collections 118
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Page Start/End:		 351 - 357
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Abstract:		 Published in 1911, Edmond Holmes' influential book What Is and What Might Be contained much adverse criticism of the quality of teaching in English elementary education. Holmes, who for some years had been His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, maintained that the principal hope for the future lay in the teaching methods of Harriet Johnson, whose school at Sompting (West Sussex) he took as the subject of the latter half of his book. Harriet Johnson was headmistress at Sompting from 1897 to 1910; her career and life were in many ways unexceptional. This article attempts to re-examine the circumstances under which she developed her individual approach to children's education during the early years of the present century. Two main features distinguish Harriet Johnson's methods from those of her contemporaries: her treatment of the subject of Nature Study (which in many ways constituted the core of her curriculum) and the way in which she and her pupils dramatised lessons whenever possible. To a large extent she anticipated the trend towards child-centred education which was to culminate in the Plowden Report of 1967. But at the same time she was evidently at pains to avoid the dangers of inadequate preparation in the 3 Rs which have sometimes been attendant upon progressive approaches to teaching.
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Author:		 M Hyndman
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Year of Publication:		 1980
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Parish: Sompting
District: Adur
County: West Sussex
Country: England
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VICTORIAN (Historic England Periods)
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