Education in Britain

A comprehensive and accessible overview of the state of British education in the second half of the twentieth century. Describes and explains the patterning of change and continuity in British education, and the persistent controversies which have accompanied it.

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This book seeks to describe and explain the patterns of change and continuity in education across the 'four nations' of Britain, and to account for the persistence of the controversies that have accompanied it. In doing so, it combines economic, political, cultural and social approaches to the study of education and, in particular, schooling.