Education in Britain: 1944 to the Present
by Ken Jones
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Manufacturer: Polity Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.94109045
EAN: 9780745625751
ISBN: 0745625754
Label: Polity Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2002-12-20
Publisher: Polity Press
Studio: Polity Press
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Summary: Class and Education: A Hidden Agenda?
Comment: Struggling to read this highly impenetrable text, it is difficult to be certain that the 'lay' reader has grasped any central message, or messages.
In his Introduction, Ken Jones states that " ... class remains central" and rightly highlights the long term and unresolved issues around 'working class' childrens' access to higher education.
However, he is clearly keen to promote an education based (on) " ... the cultures of subordinate groups ... a resource which pedagogy and the curriculum had necessarily to take into account."
He goes on to highlight the events at the William Tyndale Junior School in the 1970s where "Teachers implemented a radical version of a progressive curriculum, centring on free choice and the celebration of unauthorised cultures."
Writing as a retired teacher who was involved for many years with children who had either not started to learn to read, or were functionally illiterate, I was constantly distressed by the fact that more 'left-wing' colleagues in the teaching profession did not consider this problem a priority.
What people do with their literacy should, of course, be their choice, but to deny them the means to make that choice seems the ultimate in elitism, from whichever end of the political or philosophical spectrum it comes.
The central conundrum remains: neither a system based on segregation at 11, nor the current one-building-fits-all-needs has resolved Ken Jones' dilemma.
Sadly, Ken, neither does Rousseau's 'Emile'.
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