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The Conservative Party and the Destruction of Selective Education in Post-War Britain - The Great Evasion (Hardcover)
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The Conservative Party and the Destruction of Selective Education in Post-War Britain - The Great Evasion (Hardcover)
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The book tells the untold story of the Conservative Party's
involvement in terms of stance and policy in the destruction of
selective state education from 1945 up to the present day. Close
consideration is paid to their attitudes and prejudices towards
education, both in power and in opposition. Legh examines the
Party's responses to the pressure for comprehensive schooling and
egalitarianism from the Labour Party and the British left. In doing
so, Legh defies current historiography to demonstrate that the
Party were not passive actors in the advancement of comprehensive
schooling. The lively narrative is moved along by the author's
critical examination of the Education Ministers throughout this
period: Florence Horsbrugh and David Eccles serving under Churchill
and Eden and also Quintin Hogg and Geoffrey Lloyd under Macmillan,
as well as Edward Boyle and Margaret Thatcher under Edward Heath.
Legh's detailed research utilises a range of government documents,
personal papers, parliamentary debates and newspapers to provide
this crucial re-assessment of the Conservative Party and selective
education, and in doing so questions over-simplistic
generalisations about wholescale support for selective education
policy. It reveals instead questioning, compromises and
disagreements within the Party and its political and ideological
allies. The result is a stimulating revival of existing scholarship
which will be of interest to scholars of British education and
politics.
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