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9780415408325

Unpopular Education: Schooling and Social Democracy in England since 1944

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415408325

  • ISBN10:

    0415408326

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-12-19
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Unpopular Education offers a comprehensive, radical critique of educational policy-making since 1944, and a stark portrait of the results - from post-war hopes about 'secondary education for all', through the arguments around equal opportunity and the introduction of comprehensives, to attacks on the alleged inadequacies of schools and teachers.

Table of Contents

Social democracy : the making
Perspectives on schooling and politicsp. 13
Popular dilemmas, radical strategies and the inter-war Labour Partyp. 33
Conservatism, citizenship and the 1944 settlementp. 47
Origins of the 1960s' settlementp. 65
Social democracy : the limits
Great expectations : the noise and practice of reformp. 106
The sociology of education : a critiquep. 130
Schooling, skilling and social relationsp. 142
Social democracy : the breaking
Recession, protest and the absent defencep. 169
Turning the tables : the conservative education offensivep. 191
Labour's appropriation : the great debate and afterp. 208
The rise of the Manpower Services Commissionp. 228
By no means concludedp. 241
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