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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828761503321

Autore

Whitty Geoff

Titolo

Making sense of education policy : studies in the sociology and politics of education / / Geoff Whitty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Paul Chapman Pub.

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage, 2002

ISBN

1-4462-3179-8

0-7619-7451-2

1-281-25142-9

9786611251420

1-84787-679-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 168 p.)

Disciplina

379.41

Soggetti

Education and state - Great Britain

Education - Curricula - Great Britain

Educational sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-164) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction: Sociology and Education Policy; 2 School Knowledge and Social Education; 3 Devolution and Choice in Three Countries; 4 Re-Forming Teacher Professionalism for New Times; 5 Consumer Rights versus Citizen Rights in Contemporary Education Policy; 6 The Overt and Hidden Curricula of Quasi-Markets; 8 New Labour, Education Policy and Educational Research; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume attempts to make sense of changes in education policy over the past decade, using the resources of the sociology and politics of education.