Whose School Is It Anyway?: Power and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780750706711 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 168 str.

Kathryn A. Riley

Opis

In the 1970s, two events surfaced on the national and political agenda which moved education from the control of professionals into the remit of politicians - these events were The William Tyndale story and James Callaghan's Ruskin speech.

Recenzje

'With its easy accessible style and storyline Whose School is it Anyway? will appeal to a variety of audiences including teachers, academics, researchers, politicians and policy advisers. There is something here for everyone.' - Education Journal

Spis treści

Part 1 Constructing the reform agenda: your school or mine?; the end of an era; William Tyndale Junior School; the fallout from Tyndale; the Ruskin Speech - setting a new agenda?; Thatcher's legacy - Blair's new world. Part 2 Reconstructing the reform agenda for the 21st century: whose school? the local authority's or the governors'?; whose school? the headteacher's?; whose school? teachers', pupils' or parents'?; whose school is it anyway - it's ours.

O autorze

Kathryn Riley