New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010

New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010

Author: C. Chitty

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1137076321

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New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. It shows that, in many respects, New Labour education policy was a continuation of the policies pursued by the education ministers of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.


New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010

New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010

Author: C. Chitty

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-05-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1137076321

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New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010 assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. It shows that, in many respects, New Labour education policy was a continuation of the policies pursued by the education ministers of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.


Secondary Education and the Raising of the School-Leaving Age

Secondary Education and the Raising of the School-Leaving Age

Author: T. Woodin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-10-09

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1137065214

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The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places issues and debates in an international context.


Handbook of Historical Studies in Education

Handbook of Historical Studies in Education

Author: Tanya Fitzgerald

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-04-03

Total Pages: 935

ISBN-13: 981102362X

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This book offers an in‐depth historiographical and comparative analysis of prominent theoretical and methodological debates in the field. Across each of the sections, contributors will draw on specific case studies to illustrate the origins, debates and tensions in the field and overview new trends, directions and developments. Each section includes an introduction that provides an overview of the theme and the overall emphasis within the section. In addition, each section has a concluding chapter that offers a critical and comparative analysis of the national case studies presented. As a Handbook, the emphasis is on deeper consideration of key issues rather than a more superficial and broader sweep. The book offers researchers, postgraduate and higher degree students as well as those teaching in this field a definitive text that identifies and debates key historiographical and methodological issues. The intent is to encourage comparative historiographical perspectives of the nominated issues that overview the main theoretical and methodological debates and to propose new directions for the field.


The Business of Teaching

The Business of Teaching

Author: Meghan Stacey

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-12-23

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 3030354075

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This book explores the experiences of early career teachers in a profession that has become highly stratified by market processes. The author presents New South Wales, Australia as a case study: a state with a long history of academically selective and private sector schooling, which has become increasingly segregated under a series of neoliberalised policy reforms since the 1980s. The experiences of teachers in this book are rich and varied, from a variety of different contexts – ranging from public schools enrolling students experiencing significant educational disadvantage to elite independent schools serving much more advantaged student cohorts. Highlighting teachers’ experiences in themselves rather than their impact on students, this timely book will be of interest and value to scholars of sociology of education, teachers’ work and education policy.


Education and the Discourse of Global Neoliberalism

Education and the Discourse of Global Neoliberalism

Author: John Gray

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-22

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1000200655

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This book investigates neoliberalism in education and explains how it is a complex phenomenon which takes on local characteristics in diverse geopolitical, economic and cultural settings, while retaining a core commitment in all its manifestations to market fundamentalism. Neoliberalism - that set of beliefs and practices which has become the economic orthodoxy of global preference since the 1980s - appears remarkably resilient despite the US financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent implementation of austerity in the massively indebted nations of the European Union. This book addresses the phenomenon of neoliberalism in education and focuses on school and higher education settings in Ireland, the UK, Singapore and Hong Kong. Specifically, it addresses the role of language and semiosis in the reconfiguration of global educational practices along increasingly marketised lines. At the same time, the nature of the counter-hegemonic discourses also in circulation in these sectors is also considered. Collectively, the chapters in the book seek to shed light on the possibilities for resistance and the prospect of change from a variety of theoretical and (inter)cultural perspective. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of the journal, Language and Intercultural Communication.


The Comprehensive Public High School

The Comprehensive Public High School

Author: G. Sherington

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-02-04

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1403982910

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This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling, and they were criticized for declining standards. The book also considers government education policies and their regional manifestations.


Education Policy in Britain

Education Policy in Britain

Author: Clyde Chitty

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1137320389

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This text provides a clear overview and assessment of the educational policy systems at work in the UK. Accessibly written and covering pre-school and Higher Education policy-making as well as Primary and Secondary, the author examines the evolution of education policy from the Education Act of '44 to the academies of today.


Teacher Unions in Public Education

Teacher Unions in Public Education

Author: N. Bascia

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 113742656X

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While much mainstream educational research maintains that teacher unions should be outlawed or their powers greatly reduced, Bascia and her contributors, including many of the leading teacher union researchers working today, challenge this position. Instead, they recognize the important role teacher unions must play in defending public education and in minimizing the damage wrought by ill-thought-out educational policies. By avoiding idealization of these organizations and recognizing their limitations, Teacher Unions in Public Education demonstrates the necessity for union renewal for a successful education system.


Sociology for Education Studies

Sociology for Education Studies

Author: Catherine A. Simon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-02-05

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0429673558

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Sociology for Education Studies provides a fresh look at the sociology of education, focusing on themes such as habitus, hegemony and intersectionality. It supports students in applying sociological theory to their own educational experiences and developing an understanding of why social orders appear to be predetermined, why the state continues to create education policy in certain forms and, crucially, how to make it better. The book explores the multi-faceted perspectives that influence the sociology of education and presents examples of the applications of sociology to a wide variety of different educational contexts, including education in schools and in the community. Chapters cover topics such as: Morality, education and social order Spaces of invisibility and marginalisation in schools The global political economy of education Rethinking the ‘international perspective’ in Education Studies This accessible book is an essential read for students of Education Studies as well as those involved in teacher education and training.