1st Edition

The Education Industry

By W. Kenneth Richmond Copyright 1969
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

In one sense, education was always a service industry. This book examines the quality as well as the quantity of contemporary education as it answers the following questions: Are we getting value for money? What makes a good teacher? What sort of education do we want? In the UK in the twentieth century education grew while national income did not. Britain devoted more of its resources to... Read more
Preface. 1 The Education Industry 2 What Price Robbins? 3 The Improvident Society 4 The New York State Quality Measurement Project. 5 A Systems Approach to Educational Reform: the Swedish Example. 6 The End of Literate Man 7 Towards a Technological Theory of Education 8 Beyond Literacy 9 The Advent of Educational Technology 10 Notes and Queries on General systems Theory 11 Systems Engineering and Educational Planning. 12 Educational Technology: What Is and What Might Be. Appendix: Memorandum on Courses of Training in Educational Technology. Index.

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W Kenneth Richmond