Policy and Power in Education: The Rise and Fall of the LEA (Routledge Revivals) - Tapa blanda

Heller, Harold; Edwards, Peter

 
9781032960890: Policy and Power in Education: The Rise and Fall of the LEA (Routledge Revivals)
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 1032960892 ISBN 13: 9781032960890
Editorial: Routledge, 2026

Sinopsis

The fortunes of the education service in Britain have been intimately bound up with the vitality of the local education authorities, particularly in the decades following the 1944 Education Act. The passing of the 1988 Education Reform Act saw the LEAs in serious―perhaps terminal―decline.

First published in 1992, Policy and Power in Education sets out to map the contours of this decline in power. It relates these changing fortunes not only to the social and political environment in Britain but also to wider developments in the industrialised world. It argues that post-colonial decline, economic retreat and insular self-satisfaction combined with basic structural flaws in the LEA system threaten its very existence in the last decade of the millennium. The capacity of the system to reform itself into more responsive modes is left as an open question in the face of ever tightening constraints from the Thatcherite tendency in government. The associated challenge to the curriculum is also explored, with the suggestion that an over-prescribed and specified curriculum will prove to be maladaptive against rapidly changing conditions for the twenty-first century. New paradigms of learning are described, while the broadly irrelevant search for utopias on the left is also sceptically reviewed.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Harold Heller, at the time of the first publication, was Director of the Centre for Adviser and Inspector Development.

Peter Edwards was formerly Chief Education Officer for Berkshire.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2026
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1032960892
ISBN 13 
9781032960890
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
242
Contacto del fabricante
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com

Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24
München
80331
Alemania

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9781032949680: Policy and Power in Education: The Rise and Fall of the LEA (Routledge Revivals)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1032949686 ISBN 13:  9781032949680
Editorial: Routledge, 2025
Tapa dura