In common with most of the industrialized countries, France has undertaken an ambitious programme of education reform in the period 1980-1995. This work uses extracts from contemporary writing to examine exactly how and why that process has happened, focusing on all stages of the education system. Sections cover the main characteristics of school reform in France, its aims and objectives, a discussion of the desirability of, and politics surrounding, the reform process, and explorations of classroom practice, the changing role of parents, standards in schools, and the curriculum.
In common with most of the industrialized countries, France has undertaken an ambitious programme of education reform in the period 1980-1995. This wo...
This is a story of the EC at work over fifty years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy. The book provides a rich background narrative to current strategic efforts to develop the Europe of Knowledge, and to the Bologna Process. Its analytic interest in ideas and individual "policy entrepreneurs" underpins the story and advances understanding of the EU policy process and of the phenomenon of policy entrepreneurship.
This is a story of the EC at work over fifty years, seen from the perspective of a developing European higher education policy. The book provides a ri...
