Product Description: The particular strength of this book is Geoff Whitty's grasp on and insights into the politics of education... he is able to bring to bear an authoritative perspective which is unrivaled in the United Kingdom. there is no other current book which compares in terms of the breadth and depth of this' - Professor Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, University of London This book aims to make sense of the changes in education policy over the past decade, using the resources of the sociology and politics of education...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The 1990s were a period of quite dramatic change for initial teacher education in England and Wales with wave after wave of Government sponsored reforms. The changes introduced were highly controversial as those in higher education who were traditionally responsible for teacher education felt marginalised; many believed that what was at stake in these reforms was the nature of teacher professionalism itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Grammar School Question provides an even-handed analysis of the research evidence on comprehensive and selective education against the background of heated debate on the future of grammar schools. The book concludes with a discussion of some of the consequences of abolishing or retaining selective education...read more

Product Description: * What is the background to and significance of policies of devolution and choice in education that are currently fashionable in many parts of the world?* What has been the actual impact of these policies on school managers, teachers, students and local communities?* How might equity be preserved in systems of education where increased responsibility is delegated to the level of the school?This book examines recent school reforms in England and Wales, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Prompted by the increasing number of attempts in various parts of the world to restructure and deregulate state schooling, this book sets out what we know of the theory and practice of devolved systems and considers the reasons for this policy shift and its consequences for efficiency, effectiveness, and equity within educational systems...read more

Product Description: This paper is based on a lecture delivered by Professor Geoff Whitty on 9 January 1997, the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the sociologist Karl Mannheim who held a chair at the Institute of Education. Professor Whitty quotes Sir Fred Clarke, the Director of the Institute who appointed Mannheim to his chair, as saying that educational theory and education policy that take no account of changes in the wider social order will be ‘not only blind but positively harmful’...read more

Product Description: The authors of Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education start with the contention that the City Technical Colleges experiment--schools funded by the government to offer choice to inner-city parents and pupils--needs to be understood as part of a much broader political project--a project whose solution is based on entrepreneurship, competition and aversion to welfarism offered by the New Right in answer to Britain's economic malaise...read more

Product Description: This case-study follows the Assisted Places Scheme announced by the Conservative Government in 1979. It looks at its origins in the private sector, the mobilization of political support for the scheme and its implementation and subsequent expansion...read more

Product Description: First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.