English Educational Policy Contemporary Challenges in a HistoricalComparative Context (Paperback)

Arleta Suwalska

ISBN 10: 8323342725 / ISBN 13: 9788323342724

Published by Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo, Krakow, 2018

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Paperback. The book addresses contemporary ideological discourses concerning education in the United Kingdom. It provides a synthetic analysis of the roots of the political changes in education in the UK from the tenth to the first decade of the twenty-first century, with particular emphasis on the last hundred years. It presents British political and education thought during the tenth through the sixteenth centuries, then in the Age of Enlightenment, showing the roles of the positivist current in British education, the Chartist movement, and educational changes related to them. The remainder of the book focuses on the trends and stages of educational development up to World War II, the postwar reform of the education system in England and Wales, the neoliberal trend in the educational policy of Britain, and the genesis of the 1998 educational reforms in England and Wales and their consequences up to 2013. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: English Educational Policy Contemporary Challenges in a HistoricalComparative Context (Paperback)
• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo, Krakow
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8323342725
• ISBN 13: 9788323342724
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The book addresses contemporary ideological discourses concerning education in the United Kingdom. It provides a synthetic analysis of the roots of the political changes in education in the UK from the tenth to the first decade of the twenty-first century, with particular emphasis on the last hundred years. It presents British political and education thought during the tenth through the sixteenth centuries, then in the Age of Enlightenment, showing the roles of the positivist current in British education, the Chartist movement, and educational changes related to them. The remainder of the book focuses on the trends and stages of educational development up to World War II, the postwar reform of the education system in England and Wales, the neoliberal trend in the educational policy of Britain, and the genesis of the 1998 educational reforms in England and Wales and their consequences up to 2013.

About the Author

Arleta Suwalska is a lecturer in the department of education theory in the faculty of educational sciences at the University of Lodz. She was an Erasmus Lecturer at the University of West Hungary in 2016 and participated in the Erasmus+ program in 2016. She has written articles about British education in both English and Polish.