Education Policy Unravelled

Dean Garratt is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Children'sServices at the University of Chester, UK.GillianForrester is Principal Lecturer and Deputy Centre Leader for Education and EarlyChildhood Studies in the Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure at LiverpoolJohn Moores University, UK.

'We need to talk about education policy, and Dean Garratt and Gillian Forrester have provided the scholarship and agenda to be able to do this and to do this well. This is an ambitious text and they have presented not only a framework for engaging with policy, but also the debates about key issues challenging the security of public education. They show that we need to talk about matters to do with the curriculum and workforce, in schools and the post compulsory sector, and that these discussions need to be linked to bigger issues of social justice and democratic renewal. This is a book worth reading and thinking about tough issues with, and it will help children, parents, professionals and researchers to directly engage with issues that directly affect their engagement with education.' Helen Gunter, Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership and Management, University of Manchester, UK

• 1. Introduction: The Development of Education Policy in the Modern Era \ 2. Education: Improvement or Control? \ 3. Policy and Social Justice \ 4. The Evolving Primary Curriculum \ 5. Post-compulsory Education \ 6. Economics of Education \ 7. Globalisation and Policy Borrowing \ 8. Possibilities for Education Policy \ References \ Index