Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal

Herausgeber: Pring, Richard; Walford, Geoffrey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the ideals which lay behind the development of comprehensive schools. Written by 14 British educationalists, this text considers the evidence and suggests how further progress might be made within the moral framework of secondary education for all, irrespective of background or ability. The text includes an afterword by the Rt Hon John Prescott, MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780750706209
• ISBN-10: 0750706201
• Artikelnr.: 21465901

Autorenporträt

Richard Pring (Edited by) , Geoffrey Walford (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Ideals and history of comprehensive schooling: a seismic change - process and interpretation
Brian Simon; hopeful travel on a long road
Peter Cornwall. Part 2 Context: fragmentation into different types of school
David Halpin; privatization and selection
Geoffrey Walford. Part 3 Social and political philosophy: markets
equity and values in education
Stephen J. Ball; educating persons
Richard Pring. Part 4 The curriculum: what is worth learning?
Denis Lawton; a comprehensive curriculum 14-19
Sally Tomlinson. Part 5 Effective schools and effective teachers: effective comprehensve education
Caroline Benn; teachers for the comprehensive ideal
Ted Wragg. Part 6 Effective learning: what comprehensive schools do better
Bernard Clarke; information technology and the comprehensive ideal
John Abbot. Part 7 The organization of comprehensive education in the future: a local democratic framework
Tim Brighouse; the comprehensive school within the learning society
Stewart Ransom.