Education Policy and Social Reproduction: Class Inscription & Symbolic Control

by John Fitz, John Evans, Brian Davies

Book Overview

This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition policies, all schools are subject to the rigours of local education markets. What impact did each of these successive policy frameworks have on structures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415240050
• ISBN13: 9780415240055
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.2"