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Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education): In Search of A Future
Author(s): Phillip Brown (Editor), Hugh Lauder
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 8 Dec. 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 268 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415500915
- ISBN-13: 9780415500913
Book Description
What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need for the development of democracy in education. This volume highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and practical concern: the development of a critique of the philosophy and policies of the new Right, and of credible alternative policies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Makes an original contribution to educational understanding, and presents its evidence with human generosity and great complexity of detail.’ Observer
‘A brilliant study of the effect of a grammar-school education on working-class children and their families.’ New Statesman
‘Deserves the most careful study by politicians, administrators, teachers and parents’ Sunday Times
