The Challenge For the Comprehensive School
Culture, Curriculum and Community
1st Edition
Published on 4. May 2012
256 pages
978-1-136-66730-5 (ISBN)
Description
By 1982 the ambitious claims made for newly established comprehensive schools were being put to the test. How effectively does the comprehensive meet the needs of all young people? Do urban, working-class students enjoy more success than in the secondary modern schools? Are they more engaged in their learning with higher self-esteem? This volume discusses these questions and examines issues of social mobility and cohesion, curriculum, the balance between academic and vocational education, the place of exams in the educational system and the influence of independent schools. The author asks whether a more decentralised system of self-governing schools improve the education service - a timely question which along with the other issues examined is as relevant and challenging today as when the book was originally published in 1982.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-66730-5 (9781136667305)
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Person
David H. Hargreaves
Content
Chapter 1 The two curricula of schooling Chapter 2 The decline of community Chapter 3 Examinations and the curriculum Chapter 4 The culture of individualism Chapter 5 The curriculum and the community Chapter 6 A proposal and some objections Chapter 7 The culture of teaching Chapter 8 Teachers and the future
