The Gove Legacy Education in Britain after the Coalition

by Finn, Mike

• ISBN13: 9781137491503
• ISBN10: 1137491507
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-02-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot

Summary

Michael Gove was, without question, a pivotal figure in British educational reform. The four years he was Secretary of State for Education and the five years the coalition was in office heralded a new era for school structures, examination systems, curricula design and content and the reassertion of purportedly 'traditional' values of 'academic' education. This team of experts, drawn from academia, think-tanks and trade unions, offer an unrivalled early assessment of the impact of Gove, and his reforms, on the British educational landscape. With authors from a variety of professional backgrounds and political viewpoints, this book seeks both to situate Gove's legacy in historical perspective and offer insights as to likely future directions of travel in the educational world left behind. It is a volume which seeks to bridge the divide between policymakers and practitioners in appraising the impact of one of the most controversial education ministers of recent times.

Author Biography

Mike Finn is Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and Lecturer in the History of Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK. The recipient of the 2001 Palgrave/THE Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Prize, he has held Fellowships at both Oxford and Cambridge and in 2002-2003 was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Gove Ascendancy - Michael Gove as Secretary of State for Education; Mike Finn

1. The Gove Legacy in State Education; Brian Lightman

2. The Gove Legacy in Independent Schools: The Making and Unmaking of a Supreme Goviet; Tim Hands

3. The Gove Legacy in the Curriculum: The Case of History; Katharine Burn

4. The Gove Legacy: Where Policy Meets the Pupil; Mick Waters

5. Education Beyond the Gove Legacy: The Case of Higher Education; Roger Brown

5b. Education Beyond the Gove Legacy: The Case of Higher Education (2): Ideology in Action; Mike Finn

6. Opening Doors or Narrowing Opportunities?: The Coalition's Approach to Widening Participation, Social Mobility and Social Justice; Konstanze Spohrer

7. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015; Jonathan Simons

7b. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015 (2): Skills and accountability; Steve Besley

7c. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015 (3): Can the legacy endure?; Louis Coffait

Conclusion: The Gove Legacy in Education; Mike Finn