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Subject(s)

• Education and state—Great Britain [Browse]
• Education—Curricula—Great Britain [Browse]
• Educational sociology [Browse]

Summary note

This volume attempts to make sense of changes in education policy over the past decade, using the resources of the sociology and politics of education.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-164) and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction: Sociology and Education Policy; 2 School Knowledge and Social Education; 3 Devolution and Choice in Three Countries; 4 Re-Forming Teacher Professionalism for New Times; 5 Consumer Rights versus Citizen Rights in Contemporary Education Policy; 6 The Overt and Hidden Curricula of Quasi-Markets; 8 New Labour, Education Policy and Educational Research; References; Index

ISBN

• 1-4462-3179-8
• 0-7619-7451-2
• 1-281-25142-9
• 9786611251420
• 1-84787-679-X

OCLC

• 476142552
• 1007861304
• 476142947
• 61878718
• 49044116

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