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The book describes the English school, especially the secondary school, as a hierarchical community in which the head-teacher (principal) is an autocratic ruler. After explaining how that particular organisation of the school developed historically from the market situation faced by the English public (i.e. private) schools in the developing industrial society of the nineteenth century it... Read more
Preface. Acknowledgements. Part 1: Community. 1. Three Conceptions of Community. 2. The School as a ‘Hierarchical Community’. 3. The Sovereign Head. Part 2: Hierarchy. 4. Four ideologies Against Hierarchy. 5. The Reality of Hierarchy. Part 3: Open Education. 6. Open Education. 7. The Open School. Bibliography.
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Gary Easthope
