Product Description: This text provides a clear overview and assessment of the educational policy systems at work in the UK. Accessibly written and covering pre-school and Higher Education policy-making as well as Primary and Secondary, the author examines the evolution of education policy from the Education Act of '44 to the academies of today...read more

Product Description: New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. Placing New Labour's policy in the historical and political context of British education policies since 1944, Clyde Chitty shows that, in numerous respects, New Labour education policy was a continuation of the policies pursued by the education ministers of Margaret Thatcher and John Major...read more

For over a hundred years, psychologists and human biologists have been engaged in an often heated debate as to whether 'heredity' or 'environment' should be viewed as the determining factor in the creation of the human personality. For teachers and educationists, the discussion has tended to focus on how the human mind functions and intellectual powers develop. The controversy is often simply expressed in terms of 'nature' versus 'nurture,' with some scientists declaring that human beings are a product of a transaction between the two. To many, such enquiry and speculation is little more than futile and depressing. Yet it can surely be argued that at least with regard to the development of abilities, the 'nature' versus 'nurture' debate has had dire consequences for the education of millions of young people. Furthermore, we need to question why this debate has been pursued with such vigour in both Britain and America.

Contains seventeen contributions from academics, politicians, and others who knew Caroline Benn, addressing issues related to the comprehensive school movement, of which Benn was a leader.

Product Description: This book authoritatively states the case for comprehensive schooling in the 21st Century. The arguments that transformed secondary education in Britain in the 1960s and 70s have even greater relevance now. Edited by two of the most distinguished advocates of comprehensive education, Clyde Chitty and Brian Simon, contributors also include Geoff Carr, Jon Duveen, Mike Davies, Patrick Eavis, Tony Edwards, Philippe Harari, Richard Hatcher, Ken Jones, Rachel Jones, Carole Regan, Margaret Tulloch, Geoff Whitty, Bob Wood and John Yandell...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Eighteen years of Conservative stewardship ensured that the Labour government's education policy did not begin with a tabula rasa, for its starting point has been defined by the previous government to a greater extent than any other incoming government has found...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.