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Author Wilmott, Robert

Title Education Policy and Realist Social Theory : Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New
Published London : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Series Routledge studies in critical realism
Routledge studies in critical realism.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Establishing the theoretical framework; Structure, agency and educational change: Morphogenesis and the need for analytical dualism; Culture, organisation theory and the new managerialism; Child-centred philosophy, new managerialism and the English education system: A morphogenetic account; Socio-cultural conditioning: Plowden, the philosophers and teacher training; Socio-cultural interaction: Tyndale, Ruskin and the 'Black Paper' years; Socio-cultural elaboration: The 1988 Education Reform Act and the new managerialism
Summary Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues against this new vision of education
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Subject Educational sociology -- Europe
Education, Elementary -- Social aspects -- Europe
Elementary school teachers -- Europe
Education, Elementary -- Europe -- Philosophy
Education, Elementary -- Philosophy
Education, Elementary -- Social aspects
Educational sociology
Elementary school teachers
Europe
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203166536
0203166531