Ignorance

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

As a universal experience school provokes strongly-held opinions. The views of teachers, parents, pupils compete with those of educational theorists, social engineers and ideologues. Although undoubtedly much improved since the time of Beveridge, the provision of education remains beset with challenges. Sally Tomlinson’s engaging, and at times personal, journey through Britain’s postwar experience of schooling and education reform draws on her many years of working in the sector. She explains how legacies of different systems and countless policy initiatives have led to the persistence of social inequalities, entrenching them in society and perpetuated by the power dynamics that they create between class, race and gender. Furthermore, she shows how the increasing mania for testing, targets, choice and competition, which has made schools into a marketplace and young people into consumers, threatens to undermine schools as a place where citizens can share learning and the democratic values that are needed as much today as they were in Beveridge’s time.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-10-20
Mått:129 x 198 x 20 mm
Vikt:246 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Giants: A New Beveridge Report
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Agenda Publishing
ISBN:9781788213943

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Ekonomisk politik inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Sally Tomlinson is Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London and an Honorary Fellow in the Education Department at Oxford University. She has held professorial chairs at the universities of Lancaster and Swansea. Her most recent books are Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire (with Danny Dorling) (2019) and Education and Race from Empire to Brexit (2019).

Recensioner i media

Published to mark 80 years since William Beveridge’s report on impediments to social progress, this brisk history of English education charts eight dizzying decades of policy initiatives and events, from the 1944 Education Act to the “examinations shambles” of the Covid years. Tomlinson’s even-handed account and incisive analysis of where and how successive governments have failed in tackling inadequate schooling - or, as Beveridge had it, “ignorance” - is spliced with personal accounts from her remarkable career and family life. Written with authority and wit, it’s an expertly sharp and coherent diagnosis of the persistent problems that undermine education as much in 2024 as they did in Beveridge’s time.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: ignorance evolves2. Breaking out of ignorance, 1945–803. Market forces and ignorance in the 1980s4. Redistributing ignorance in the 1990s5. Bog standard schools and academies, 2000–096. Weirdos and misfits, 2010–207. Ignorance in Covid/post-Covid schooling, 2020–218. Conclusion