320 Pages
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Routledge
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This book covers a crucial period for the development of state education in Britain; the advent of the comprehensive debate before and during the Second World War; the War years themselves and the 1944 Education Act; the post-War Labour Government; and Churchill's last government in a time of education expansion. From the 1960s, the focus shifted to questions of social deprivation and educational... Read more
Part 1 The inter-war years 1926-1939: putting secondary education on the agenda; resistance to secondary education for all; multilateral and technical schools; school welfare and nursery school provision; politics and textbooks. Part 2 The war years 1939-1945: outbreak of war and evacuation; post-war planning; Norwood and reconstruction; pressure groups and the 1944 Education Act; the public schools - a case of special treatment?. Part 3 The immediate post-war years 1945-1959: Labour governments and the implementation of the 1944 Education Act; the Conservatives back in power, 1951 - contraction and expansion; nursery education and school welfare; the 1944 Education Act - unfinished business. Part 4 A time of hope 1960-1970: social deprivation - education to the rescue?; secondary education - academic and social selection; higher education; the public schools - still a force to be reckoned with; conclusion; appendices.
Biography
Dr Clive Griggs, Clive Griggs
'It is a heart-warming record of a long march through the committees but reads like an adventure story.' - Adults Learning
'This book is an impressive piece of scholarship ... a formidable addition to the literature, one which will be sought after and should be on the shelves of any serious commentator on educational politics in Britain during the twentieth century and Clive Griggs is to be congratulated on it.' - Educational Review
