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Author:   Roy Lowe (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780367701758

ISBN 10:   0367701758
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   29 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Education in England: intentions and outcomes Industrialisation and education The characteristics of English society Chapter 1 An age of revolutions: 1760-1830 ‘The ever-whirling wheel of Change’ Schooling in the Eighteenth Century A new context for education Planning for social stratification Evangelicals and the Sunday school movement The beginnings of systematisation: the monitorial schools Socialists, utopians and education The first stirrings of the State Embedding inequalities Chapter 2 The workshop of the world: 1830-1895 ‘In a progressive country change is constant’ ‘Governing as little as they could’: schooling the poor in Victorian England Systematising superiority: the education of a new elite Creating a new middle class: the reform of the endowed schools Rebuilding the ivory tower ‘Places of moral rather than intellectual training’: the schooling of middle class girls Chapter 3 Embedding privilege: the charitable status of elite schools A neglected issue Charitable status: the realities The origins of charitable status The need for change Moves towards reform ‘A great concession’: the establishment of the Charity Commission The formative years of the Charity Commission Long-term implications Chapter 4 Schooling for a changing world: 1895-1914 The Victorian legacy A new administration for education Towards a new elementary education Regulating secondary education Educating the Edwardian elite Chapter 5 1914-1939: Schools fit for heroes? War and its aftermath Conflicting aspirations Economising on education Planning educational futures Schooling the common people Gradations of schooling: educating elites between the Wars Chapter 6 ‘The safeguard of social stratification’: 1939-1979 Schooling during the Second World War ‘The search for freedom from want’: the post-War years The primary concern: building a new sector of education The false dawn of comprehensivisation: secondary schooling, 1945-79 ‘For all those who are qualified by ability and attainment…and who wish to do so’: the post-War expansion of higher education A note of caution Chapter 7 Neo-Liberalism and multi-nationalism: 1979 to the present A novel context? Implementing the new politics of education The realities of change: the primary sector The outsourcing of secondary education The private sector How higher education was marketized Conclusion Schooling and social class Children as victims Implications

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'This book performs the important civic service of showing the ways in which the English education system has worked consistently for over two centuries to sustain and reinforce those inequalities which continue to be such a marked feature of contemporary English society. Clearly written and well-organised, the detailed narrative shows fully how the careful and critical study of education over the long term is such a valuable perspective from which to study British society.' Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Policy, University of Cambridge. ''An essential guide to the troubling history of educational inequalities in the UK and how they explain our contemporary social problems.'' Gary McCulloch, Brian Simon Professor of History of Education, UCL Institute of Education.

Author Information

Roy Lowe is one of Britain’s best-known historians of education, having published extensively over a long period on the history of schools and universities. He was for some years President of the UK History of Education Society and was awarded an OBE for services to education in 2002.

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