1st Edition

The Death of Progressive Education How Teachers Lost Control of the Classroom

By Roy Lowe Copyright 2008
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

The first authoritative survey of the changing politics of the classroom since the Second World War. It charts the process by which society moved away from being one in which teachers decided both the content of the school curriculum and how it would be taught towards the present situation in which a host of external influences dictate the nature of the educational experience. The book... Read more

1. Popular Education in England: The Historical Legacy  2. The Post-War Educational Settlement: A Conservative Revolution  3. A Golden Age? The Sixties and Early Seventies  4. 1974-1979: The Teachers Lose Control  5. 1979-1989: A Decade of Change 6. 'Forging a New Consensus in Education': The Implementation of the Education Reform Act  7. 1989-1997 New Labour and the Curriculum since 1997

Biography

Roy Lowe