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A Generation of Radical Educational Change - Stories from the field (Paperback)
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How much have teachers and their pupils benefitted from the
top-down Westminster-led control of policy held in place by a
powerful national inspection regime? A Generation of Radical
Educational Change: Stories from the Field is an exploration of the
revolutionary impact of the greater and continuing involvement of
central government in education policy-making which began in 1976
and was accelerated by the 1988 Education Act and subsequent
legislation. In the book, a dozen distinguished contributors from a
wide range of sectors explain and reflect on how they worked to do
their best for their schools, teachers and pupils in these years of
great change. They understand the reasons, explained by Lord Baker
in his early chapter, for a National Curriculum in 1988, and also
the reasons for a more effective national inspection system. Yet
their stories accumulate to become a powerful critique of the
top-down policies of the last two decades. These policies have been
too numerous, short-term, incoherent and partisan; governments have
been indifferent to professional opinion and serious research, and
have relied excessively on measurable outcomes and simplistic
Ofsted judgments. Our current system is narrower and less
democratic than it was, but evidence is hard to find that English
pupils are doing any better in international comparisons. The
combined reflections in this volume are timely in these years of
lively educational debate as are the suggestions for future policy.
A Generation of Radical Educational Change is an invaluable read
for current and aspiring headteachers, policy makers and those with
an interest in education policy and how it evolves.
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