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Schoolchildren

Schooling methods and subjects taught change as theorists decide how we best retain knowledge. But do the children themselves change? Listen to these recordings of schoolchildren made fifty years apart but from similar parts of Essex and judge for yourself.

  • Chrishall Primary School, 2016

    Chrishall Primary School, 2016

    https://d19az1b8nqezvo.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Scene_090_Chrishall_School.mp3
  • Recollections of Witham Secondary Modern School, recorded in 1978

    Recollections of Witham Secondary Modern School, recorded in 1978

    https://d19az1b8nqezvo.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Lucy-Croxall-edited.mp3
  • Schoolbell and Children in Great Chesterford, 1962

    Schoolbell and Children in Great Chesterford, 1962

    https://d19az1b8nqezvo.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/9-10-edited1.mp3
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