Blair's Educational Legacy: Thirteen Years of New Labour

ISBN-13: 9780230621763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 238 str.

Anthony Green

Opis

Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices.

Spis treści

Introduction; A.Green Capitalisation by Stealth: The Business Takeover of Schools in England; G.Rikowski All the Wrong Answers: Labour's Corporate-Centred Education Initiatives; K.Farnsworth The Knowledge-based Economy and the Transformation of Higher Education: Issues concerning enclosing and protecting the intellectual commons; M.Bellamy The Professional Imagination: Further Education Professionalism in and beyond a Neo-liberal Context; D.Gleeson The Privatisation of Education Phase II: Perspectives on state schools the private sector and ten years of a Labour government; T.Hafid Management and Governance of the School System; R.Hatcher City: Academies, Alienation, Economism and Contending Forces for Change; P.Woods Curriculum Change in the Blair Years; T.Wrigley Education still make you sick under Gordon Brown, Innit?; M.Allen & P.Ainley Ten Years of Education Policy and 'Race' Inequality: Whiteness or Neo-liberal Practice?; A.Maisuria Gendered Practices in Education; R.George & J.Wadsworth

O autorze

ANTHONY GREEN Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.