Education and the struggle for Democracy: The Politics of Educational Ideas
Carr, Wilfred and Anthony Hartnett
| Publication Date |
1996 |
| ISBN |
0335195202 |
| Publisher |
Open University Press, |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Condition |
Good+, sound copy |
| SKU |
16780 |
| Notes |
Rubbed to corners and slightly thumbed to fore-edge. Text is clean. Binding is sound. |
Description
Paperback. xii, 233pp. Introduction: The politics of educational ideas; 1. Education, politics and society; 2. Democratic theory and democratic education; 3. 'Gentling the masses': the nineteenth-century origins of the English educational tradition; 4. 'Secondary education for all': the struggle for democratic education in twentieth-century England; 5. The battle of ideas and the rise of the New Right coalition in England; 6. The New Right offensive and the demise of democratic education in England; Conclusion: Democratic education in the twenty-first century.
