about ideas: ideas of the environment as the educational resource, ideas of the enquiring school, the school without walls...". In the same year, Ward contributed to Education Without Schools (edited by Peter Buckman) discussing 'the role of the state'. He argued that "one significant role of the state in the national education systems of the world is to perpetuate social and economic injustice".

In The Child in the City (1978), and later The Child in the Country (1988), Ward "examined the everyday spaces of young people's lives and how