Blair’s Educational Legacy [electronic resource] : Thirteen Years of New Labour /
Green, A.author.
Green, Anthony G.
Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices.
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Cover; Contents; Chapter 1 Blair and New Labour: Contexts, Legacies, and Prospects for Educating the Educators; Chapter 2 Education and the Crunch: Gloom and Opportunities; Chapter 3 Education, Education, Education or Business, Business, Business?; Chapter 4 Valorisation and the Role of the University under New Labour: Reclaiming the Commons in a Knowledge-based Economy; Chapter 5 The Professional Imagination: Remaking Education Policy in a Neoliberal Context; Chapter 6 Curriculum Change and the Blair Years; Chapter 7 Academies: Diversity, Economism, and Contending Forces for Change
Chapter 8 Ten Years of New Labour Education Policy and Racial Inequality: An Act of Whiteness or Neoliberalism?Chapter 9 Patterns of Conflict in Education: France, Italy, England; Afterword: New Labour's Legacy ... the Con-Dems and Zombie Blairism; Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour's UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices.
Blair, Tony, 1953-
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Labour Party (Great Britain)
Education—History.
Education—Philosophy.
World politics.
Educational sociology.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Philosophy and social sciences.
History of Education.
Educational Philosophy.
Political History.
Sociology of Education.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Philosophy of Education.