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The Crisis of the Meritocracy - Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War (Hardcover)
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The Crisis of the Meritocracy - Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War (Hardcover)
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Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went
to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone
goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to
university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis of the
Meritocracy answers this question not by looking to politicians and
educational reforms, but to the revolution in attitudes and
expectations amongst the post-war British public - the rights
guaranteed by the welfare state, the hope of a better life for
one's children, widespread upward mobility from manual to
non-manual occupations, confidence in the importance of education
in a 'learning society' and a 'knowledge economy'. As a result of
these transformations, 'meritocracy' - the idea that a few should
be selected to succeed - has been challenged by democracy and its
wider understandings of equal opportunity across the life course.
At a time when doubts have arisen about whether we need so many
students, and amidst calls for a return to grammar-school selection
at 11, the tension between meritocracy and democracy remains vital
to understanding why our grandparents, our parents, ourselves and
our children have sought and got more and more education - and to
what end.
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