Education, Majorism and ‘the Curriculum of the Dead'

In this chapter I want to consider the policy dominance of ‘cultural restorationism’ in UK education. Cultural restorationists being the ‘hard line, old humanists of the New Right’ (Ball, 1990:6) within the British Conservative Party, whose main policy preoccupation is with the re-valorization of traditional forms of education (Wexler and Grabiner, 1986)….