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Education, Reform and the State Twenty Five Years of Politics, Policy and Practice
284 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
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The last quarter of the twentieth century was a very important period in history of education. Beginning with the so-called 'Great Debate', the period witnessed intense public and political interest in educational issues, culminating in an almost unprecedented amount of education-related legislation, the most symbolic of which was the Education Reform Act of 1988. Some scholars have rightly... Read more
List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, PART I Introduction verview1and historical, Introduction and rationale, PART II The changing institutional context, PART III Professionalism, accountability and standards, PART IV Issues of equality, PART V Conclusion, Index
Biography
John Furlong, Robert Phillips
Times Educational Supplement Book of the Week:
'This logical structure covers all the main policy areas and the chapters are well structured and clearly written. Thanks to good editing, there is a consistency of approach and style that is often absent from multi-author works.' - John Dunford
' This collection of sixteen essays, grouped in five parts, presents a reasonably comprehensive overview of the politics of education in Britian since 1976 ... It is an accessible text; one to be read by those who wish to acquire an introductory overview of the political struggles that have enevloped British education in the past twenty-five years. - Ted Tapper, Perspectives
