Education in the Post-War Years: A Social History (Routledge Library Editions: Education)

Lowe, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138006467 ISBN 13: 9781138006461

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

This book provides an overview of the relationship between the sweeping social changes of the post-war period and education in England. It outlines the major demographic cultural and socio-economic developments which made new demands of the education service during the twenty years following the War and analyses the responses made by schools, colleges and universities. The book provides not only an informed narrative of the development of formal education, but also an authoritative account of the ways in which suburbanisation and the growth of the new property-owning middle class determined both the rhetoric of education and the structure of the system which emerged through the implementation of the 1944 Education Act.

About the Author:

Roy Lowe is a Visiting Professor in the School of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at the Institute of Education and he is Editor of the Journal of Educational Administration and History.