ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses 'radical education' to include those educational ideas, actions or legislative Acts which have been significantly different to the historical or political context in which they have occurred, and which have had some identifiable impact. It describes the scrutiny of a range of ideas, insights and actions which might constitute 'radical education'. The chapter provides the development of an understanding of differences between 'change' and 'radical change'. It considers whether radical education is a thing of the past, and only of the past. The purpose of extending education was to ensure that how and what people thought and what they thought about was under state control. Education is seen as detached from the day-to-day world. Projects such as Women Into Science and Engineering have broken — or at least seriously cracked — the glass barriers protecting some traditional male employment and education enclaves from female encroachment.
