ABSTRACT
Michael Fielding looks at what the Labour Government has achieved in the last four years with its policy of 'education, education, education'.
There has been widespread disappointment in New Labour's education policies, which on the whole have not steered too far wide of those put in place by Margaret Thatcher, including issues of marketisation, testing and performativity. Michael Fielding has called on the key policy thinkers in education to offer their opinions on what has happened in education over the first three to four years of the New Labour Government.
Education policy is a controversial subject and with a General Election expected within the next few months, this book will be read widely by people within education, politicians and journalists and by others anxious to get to facts and avoid the spin. The subject matter and the presence of so many high profile educationalists make this an essential read.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|28 pages
The modernising agenda
chapter 2|27 pages
High expectations and standards for all, no matter what
part II|30 pages
Alternative perspectives, particular values
part III|70 pages
Feeling policy realities on the pulses
chapter 5|11 pages
Renewed hopes and lost opportunities
chapter 8|12 pages
Further education under New Labour
part IV|55 pages
Levers of change
chapter 11|12 pages
Target setting, policy pathology and student perspectives
part V|28 pages
Rethinking the roles and realities of educationalresearch
part VI|32 pages
International perspectives