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New Labour and secondary education, 1994-2010 [electronic resource] / Clyde Chitty.

"New Labour and Secondary Education, 1994-2010" assesses New Labour's policy towards secondary education in Britain. Placing New Labour's policy in the historical and political context of British education policies since 1944, Clyde Chitty shows that, in numerous respects, New La...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Chitty, Clyde
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]
Series:Secondary education in a changing world.
Subjects:
Labour Party (Great Britain) > Platforms.
Education, Secondary > Great Britain.
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Education, Secondary.
Great Britain.
Political platforms.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Origins of Political Parties in Britain: Consensus or Conflict?
  • 3. Labour Education Policy, 1944 to 1994: Fifty Years of Missed Opportunities and Uneasy Compromises
  • 4. A Change of Direction: The Origins of New Labour's Education Philosophy
  • 5. Choice, Diversity, and Selection: The Steady Abandonment of the Comprehensive Ideal
  • 6. The Privatization of Education
  • 7. The Erosion of the National Curriculum
  • 8. International Perspectives
  • 9. Conclusion.

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