Whose School Is It Anyway?: Power and Politics

ISBN-13: 9780750707138 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 175 str.

Kathryn 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