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Author: Michael Barber Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0826437192 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 145
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The 1944 Education Act was a crucial piece of British legislation - one of the most important this century. It was passed against a background of war and growing popular demand for social reform. It provided a framework for the education service which remained largely intact for almost fifty years. Since 1988, however, with the introduction of a National Curriculum and competition between schools, the workings of the Act have been largely dismantled. In The Making of the 1944 Education Act, Michael Barber presents a lively evaluation of the Act - its background, passage and effect - fifty years after it was introduced. He looks briefly at the frustrated attempts at reform between the wars and how the upheaval of World War II created the right conditions for successful legislation. The book then follows the passage of reform and quotes liberally from contemporary sources such as the Times Educational Supplement and Hansard to illustrate its narrative. It is a fascinating history of educational policy, and of British culture and politics towards the end of the war.
Author: Michael Barber Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0826437192 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
The 1944 Education Act was a crucial piece of British legislation - one of the most important this century. It was passed against a background of war and growing popular demand for social reform. It provided a framework for the education service which remained largely intact for almost fifty years. Since 1988, however, with the introduction of a National Curriculum and competition between schools, the workings of the Act have been largely dismantled. In The Making of the 1944 Education Act, Michael Barber presents a lively evaluation of the Act - its background, passage and effect - fifty years after it was introduced. He looks briefly at the frustrated attempts at reform between the wars and how the upheaval of World War II created the right conditions for successful legislation. The book then follows the passage of reform and quotes liberally from contemporary sources such as the Times Educational Supplement and Hansard to illustrate its narrative. It is a fascinating history of educational policy, and of British culture and politics towards the end of the war.
Author: Gary McCulloch Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136224289 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 213
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This book presents a clear overview of the debates that surrounded the making of the 1944 Act, which affected every aspect of education in this country. It gives a detailed account of the tripartite divisions into 'three types of child' that were sanctioned in the reforms of the 1940s. At the same time, it also emphasises the idea of education as a civic project which underlay the reforms and which was such an important part of their lasting authority. The education policies of the past decade and the current attempts to shape a new education settlement need to be interpreted in a long-term historical framework and in particular, in relation to the aims and problems of the last great cycle of reform in the 1940s. This book makes an important contribution to the development of such a framework and the social history of education policy in this country.
Author: Mandy Balzer Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3656284652 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 18
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Potsdam (Anglistik & Amerikanistik), course: British Culture in the 19th and 20th Century, language: English, abstract: In the last decades, the educational systems ‘widened’ steadily. Learning opportunities and participation are on the increase. Particularly the number of people that remain in the educational system beyond compulsory education rose considerably. This expansion continues: Following an almost universal taking part in secondary education, tertiary education registers a continuous perpetually participation rate (OECD 31-32). The responsibility for the education in England lies with the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) led by the Secretary of State, Rt Hon Charles Clarke MP. This year’s progress report states that parents want the best for their children. They want them to be safe, happy, healthy, doing well in a good school with high standards, and able to get good qualifications and eventually a good job. [...] The world is changing, and so are the skills, attitudes and aspirations that children and young people need to succeed in a changing global economy (DCSF 3). This shows that nowadays education is given a high priority in the English society. It has not always been like that. The present English educational system is the result of a historical development for centuries. The system certainly has features of recent foundation, but its most basic aspects persisted directly and visibly from the nineteenth century. A key moment in educational reform seemed, and still seems, to be the Education Act of 1944. “It is a very great Act which makes – and in fact has made – possible as important and substantial advance in public education as this country has ever known.” (Dent 1). This paper shall deliver insight into the reforms of the 1944 Education Act. In this regard, I would like to enlarge on its roots and aims – especially concerning the influence of World War II. Furthermore, I will introduce the Act itself, its strengths and weaknesses, and its potential impact on the present English education system. There are certainly several more interesting aspects regarding the issue, but due to the restricted number of pages, I will not be able to go into all of them.
Author: Colin Barnes Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS ISBN: 9781850651277 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 292
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Arguing that disability is a civil rights issue, this study outlines, often using official statistics, the denial to disabled people of full and equal access to the institutions of British society. It contends that only disabled people themselves can bring about a change in this situation.
Author: Elizabeth Anne Sundermann Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Richard Austen Butler, President of the Board of Education, 1941-1945, and his intellectual colleagues in England built an educational philosophy based on cultural traditions synthesized with progressive educational trends. Here, this philosophy is identified as Christian-civic humanism. Legislation resulting from this educational philosophy, the 1944 Education Act, mandated religious education (RE) for cultural cohesion and promoted a diversified secondary and further education system to bolster English commonweal in an era of flux. Historians' analyses of the 1944 Act as a piece of post-war social legislation have overwhelmed its significance as an artifact of intellectual and educational idealism. Nonetheless, focus on the Act's relationship to egalitarian "secondary education for all," and secularized education has become increasingly passé. Revisionist analyses allow reconsideration of links between education and state welfare in terms of broader historical meanings. The educational philosophy of Christian-civic humanism was uncovered using revisionist-minded archival research that examined educational philosophy by Butler and his colleagues outside of traditional Board of Education sources and interpretations. This methodology broaden research and analysis of English history of education to include speeches, essays, and textbooks on more broadly-defined educational issues found in libraries and archives inside and outside of English history of education archives. Christian-civic humanism as thesis adds to the history of education, as well as English history writ large, to move beyond stalemates in English educational politics - impasses linked in part to over-reliance on Marxist and secular explanations of the history of education. Incomplete analyses of "secondary education for all" and the meaning of religious education have led to misunderstandings between educationalists and politicians, and consigned progressive-minded, yet conservative and Christian, educationalists to the "dustbin of history." Given the continued stalemates in English education over the meaning of "secondary education for all," as well as the [re-]emergence of debates about British identity linked to religion, these issues demand revision. The resulting analysis provides a dispassionate, rather than politicized, discussion of the making of the 1944 Education Act by Conservative and Christian educationalists. It adds to a body of literature on the importance of civil and religious ideals in twentieth-century English history of education.
Author: Peter Mortimore Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1447311310 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 328
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At a time when education is considered crucial to a country’s economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England’s system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather than trusted and parents cast as winners or losers in a gamble for school places. Education under siege considers the English education system as it is and as it might be. In a highly accessible style, Peter Mortimore, an author with wide experience of the education sector, both in the UK and abroad, identifies the current system’s strengths and weaknesses. He concludes that England has some of the best teachers in the world but one of the most muddled systems. Challenging the government’s view that there is no alternative, he proposes radical changes to help all schools become good schools. They include a system of schools receiving a fair balance of pupils who learn easily and those who do not, ensuring a more even spread of effective teachers, as well as banning league tables, outlawing selection, opening up faith schools and integrating private schools into the state system. In the final chapter, he asks readers who share his concerns to demand that the politicians alter course. The book will appeal to parents, education students and teachers, as well as everyone interested in the future education of our children.
Author: Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 0415132436 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 438
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This latest volume of the Register of Educational Research in the United Kingdom lists all the major research projects being undertaken in Britain during the latter months of 1992, the whole of 1993 and 1994 and the early months of 1995. Each entry provides names and addresses of the researchers, a detailed abstract, the source and amount of the grant(where applicable), the length of the project and details of published material about the research.
Author: Christine Heward Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351704826 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 315
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Originally published in 1988, this book analyses the effect of public boarding school on those boys who grew to manhood under its influence. With access to over 2000 letters written by parents to the Head Master and governors of Ellesmere College in the period 1929-50, it raises issues about the construction of masculinity in the mid-twentieth century. The author demonstrates from these candid letters the concerns of a small group of parents bringing up their sons: their aspirations, plans, fears and problems. She shows how parents’ plans changed, sometimes very dramatically, due to the Second World War, and demonstrates the differences between social groups as diverse as clergy, widows and farmers in bringing up their sons. The author also presents fascinating and elusive evidence about the sons themselves and the effects of their schooling on their models of masculinity, sexuality and attitudes to women. This book places the particular concerns of a relatively small group within the much wider contexts of education, social and gender structure.
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