Education policy unravelled
By: Derek Kassem and Gillian Forrester
Contributors: Forrester, Gillian
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781441130730; 9781441166180
Subjects: EDUCATION / Higher; Aims and objectives; Education; EDUCATION / Physical Education; Education and state
Description: "A comprehensive introduction the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation which supports readers to engage in contemporary policy analysis"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction \ 1. Development of Education Policy in the Modern Era \ 2. Education: Improvement or Control? \ 3. Policy and Social Justice \ 4. The Evolving Primary Curriculum \ 5. Post-compulsory Education \ 6. Economics of Education \ 7. Education and Ethnicity \ 8 Globalisation and Policy Borrowing \ 9. Possibilities for Education Policy \ References \ Index >.