ABSTRACT
This book provides an overview of the relationship between the sweeping social changes of the post-war period and education in England. It outlines the major demographic cultural and socio-economic developments which made new demands of the education service during the twenty years following the War and analyses the responses made by schools, colleges and universities. The book provides not only an informed narrative of the development of formal education, but also an authoritative account of the ways in which suburbanisation and the growth of the new property-owning middle class determined both the rhetoric of education and the structure of the system which emerged through the implementation of the 1944 Education Act.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|70 pages
Implementing the Act, 1945–1951
chapter 1|18 pages
Reconstruction and Austerity: The Social Background
chapter 2|16 pages
Primary Concern: Educating the Under Twelves
chapter 3|19 pages
Parity of Esteem: The Goming of Universal Secondary Schooling
chapter 4|15 pages
The New Scientism and Higher Education
part Two|132 pages
Education for an Affluent Society, 1951–1964