1st Edition

The Comprehensive School 1944-1970 The politics of secondary school reorganization

By I G K Fenwick Copyright 1976
    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    200 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1976,this survey of policy-making in secondary education in Britain from 1944-1977, analyzes the relationship between the politician and the educationist and the part each plays in the policy-making process, paying particular attention to the role of central and local government, the teachers’ organizations and the political parties. The volume illustrates how the anticipated importance of the teachers’ organizations in initiating changes in policy was ill-founded while the political parties made a valuable contribution.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 THE government of education; Chapter 2 THE backround to policy-making in education; Chapter 3 DEFINING secondary education: the Labour government 1945 – 51; Chapter 4 BRINGING politics into education: the survial of the comprehensive school idea in the early 1950s; Chapter 5 A Time to experiment: the developement of secondary education under the Conservatives; Chapter 6 Bringing education into politics: Labour takes the initiative; Chapter 7 Theory into practice the Labour government 1964 – 70; Chapter 8 The developement of educational policy;

    Biography

    I. G. K. Fenwick