During the past decade there has been a series of radical changes
to the educational system of England and Wales. This book argues
that any serious study of these changes has to engage with complex
questions about the role of education in a modem liberal democracy
Were these educational changes informed by the needs and
aspirations of a democratic society? To what extent will they
promote democratic values and ideals'? These questions can only be
adequately addressed by making explicit the political ideas and the
underlying philosophical principles that have together shaped the
English educational system.;To this end, the book provides a
selective history of English education which exposes the
connections between decisive periods of educational change and the
intellectual and political climate in which it occurred. It also
connects the educational policies of the 1980s and 90s to the
political ideas of the New Right in order to show how they are part
of a broader political strategy aimed at reversing the democratic
advances achieved through the intellectual and political struggles
of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.; The book proposes that
a democratic educational vision can
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