Michael Fielding (ed.)

Taking Education Really Seriously

Four Years Hard Labour
Herausgeber: Fielding, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Michael Fielding looks at what the Labour Government has achieved in the last four years with its policy of 'education, education, education'. There has been widespread disappointment in New Labour's education policies, which on the whole have not steered too far wide of those put in place by Margaret Thatcher, including issues of marketisation, testing and performativity. Michael Fielding has called on the key policy thinkers in education to offer their opinions on what has happened in education over the first three to four years of the New Labour Government. Education policy is a controversial subject and with a General Election expected within the next few months, this book will be read widely by people within education, politicians and journalists and by others anxious to get to facts and avoid the spin. The subject matter and the presence of so many high profile educationalists make this an essential read.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780415252102
• ISBN-10: 0415252105
• Artikelnr.: 21137942

Autorenporträt

Michael Fielding

Inhaltsangabe

1. Labour, Learning and the Economy: A 'Policy Sociology' Perspective:
Stephen Ball; 2. High Expectations and Standards for All, No Matter What:
Creating a World Class Education Service: Michael Barber; 3. Creative
Society: Reuniting Schools & Lifelong Learning; 4. Will the Curriculum
Caterpillar Ever Learn to Fly? Mike Davies and Gwyn Edwards; 5.
Restructuring Educational Research for the 'Third Way': John Elliott and
Paul Doherty; 6. Target Setting, Policy Pathology and Student Perspectives:
Learning to Labour in New Times: Michael Fielding; 7. Taking Education
Really Seriously: Four Years Hard Labour (Editorial): Michael Fielding; 8.
The Two Solitudes: Policy Makers and Policy Implementers: Dean Fink; 9.
Modernising Headteachers as Leaders: An Analysis of the NPQH: Helen Gunter;
10. 'Modernising' LEAs: A Changing Framework of Values: Valerie Hannon; 11.
Revitalizing Educational Research: Past Lessons and Future Prospects: David
Hargreaves; 12. Further Education Under New Labour: Translating the
Language of Aspiration into a Springboard for Achievement: Ann Limb; 13,
Renewed Hopes and Lost Opportunities: Early Childhood in the Early Years of
the Labour Government: Peter Moss; 14. 'It Lifted My Sights': Re-valuing
Higher Education in an Age of New Technology: Richard Smith and Paul
Standish; 15. Managing the Myth of the Self-Managing School as an
International Education Reform: John Smyth; 16. The Good, the Bad and the
Ugly: On Three Years' Labour Education Policy: James Tooley; 17. Reforming
Teachers' Pay: Crossing the Threshold: Mel West; 18. The Impact of New
Labour's Educational Policy on Primary Schools: Peter Woods, Bob Jeffrey
and Geoff Troman