Blair’s Educational Legacy

ANTHONY GREEN Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

• Introduction; A.Green Capitalisation by Stealth: The Business Takeover of Schools in England; G.Rikowski All the Wrong Answers: Labour's Corporate-Centred Education Initiatives; K.Farnsworth The Knowledge-based Economy and the Transformation of Higher Education: Issues concerning enclosing and protecting the intellectual commons; M.Bellamy The Professional Imagination: Further Education Professionalism in and beyond a Neo-liberal Context; D.Gleeson The Privatisation of Education Phase II: Perspectives on state schools the private sector and ten years of a Labour government; T.Hafid Management and Governance of the School System; R.Hatcher City: Academies, Alienation, Economism and Contending Forces for Change; P.Woods Curriculum Change in the Blair Years; T.Wrigley Education still make you sick under Gordon Brown, Innit?; M.Allen & P.Ainley Ten Years of Education Policy and 'Race' Inequality: Whiteness or Neo-liberal Practice?; A.Maisuria Gendered Practices in Education; R.George & J.Wadsworth