1st Edition

Patterns of Power and Authority in English Education

By Frank Musgrove Copyright 1971
    194 Pages
    by Routledge

    194 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1971, this book argues that schools at the time were underpowered, due partly to circumstances within contemporary educational institutions, but chiefly to their relationships with the wider social environment. It suggests that schools lacked bargaining power and that their position deteriorated because they had marketed an ev

    1. Power, authority and educational goals 2. Impotent schools 3. Power, gifts and investment in education 4. Humour, sex and power 5. Power and the shape and size of schools 6. Participation and communication 7. The advantages of bureaucracy 8. The good headteacher 9. The power environment 10. Power, the future and the counter-culture; Notes; Index

    Biography

    Frank Musgrove