LEADER 02773nam 2200349 u 450 001 9910872342903321 005 20240723183111.0 010 $a1-78735-984-0 035 $a(CKB)28442438800041 035 $a(VLeBooks)9781787359840 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928442438800041 100 $a20231003d2023uuuu uy 0 101 0 $aeng 200 $aBrian Simon and the Struggle for Education 210 $cUCL Press$d2023 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a9781787359833 330 $aThis is the first full-length study of the life and career of Brian Simon (1915-2002), leading Marxist intellectual and historian of education in twentieth-century Britain. Using documentary sources that have only recently become publicly available, it reveals the remarkably broad range of Simon's life as student, soldier and school teacher, Communist Party activist, and educational academic, campaigner and reformer. In a sympathetic biography that yet retains critical distance, the authors analyse Simon's contribution to Marxism and the Communist Party. They explore the influence of both on his work as a historian of education and trace the significance of his Marxist beliefs, political associations and historical approach to the cause of educational reform. In so doing, they consider the full nature and limitations of Simon's achievements in his struggle for education. Unlike many Marxist scholars he remained loyal to the Communist Party in the 1950s, which damaged his reputation as a public intellectual. Nevertheless, his support for comprehensive education helped to promote egalitarian educational reforms in Britain, although he was later unable to provide sufficient resistance to the 1988 Education Reform Act and to a decline in the position of the comprehensive schools. In all this, the significance of Simon's family, and especially his relationship with his wife Joan is to the fore. Joan and Brian forged a formidable 60-year partnership, in politics and the Communist Party as well as in life, that lasted until Brian's death in January 2002.  Praise for Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education 'a very interesting book for historians of education and the best overall work about the thought and work of Brian Simon.' Historia y Memoria de la Educación 606 $aCommunism and education 606 $aEducation 606 $aEducators 615 0$aCommunism and education. 615 0$aEducation. 615 0$aEducators. 676 $a370.92 701 $aMcCulloch$b Gary$0881912 701 $aCanales$b Antonio F$01746698 701 $aKu$b Hsiao-Yuh$f1979-$01746699 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910872342903321 996 $aBrian Simon and the Struggle for Education$94178348 997 $aUNINA