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1 online resource (400 pages) |
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Woburn Education Series |
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Woburn education series.
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| Contents |
Front Cover; The TUC and Education Reform 1926-1970; Copyright Page; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: The Inter-War Years 1926-1939; Chapter 1. Putting Secondary Education on the Agenda; Chapter 2. Resistance to Secondary Education for All; Chapter 3. Multilateral and Technical Schools; Chapter 4. School Welfare and Nursery School Provision; Chapter 5. Politics and Textbooks; Part 2: The War Years 1939-1945; Chapter 6. Outbreak of War and Evacuation; Chapter 7. Post-War Planning; Chapter 8. Norwood and Reconstruction |
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Chapter 9. Pressure Groups and the 1944 Education ActChapter 10. The Public Schools: A Case of Special Treatment?; Part 3: The Immediate Post-War Years 1945-1959; Chapter 11. Labour Governments and the Implementationof the 1944 Education Act; Chapter 12. The Conservatives back in Power, 1951:Contraction and Expansion; Chapter 13. Nursery Education and School Welfare; Chapter 14. The 1944 Education Act: Unfinished Business; Part 4: A Time of Hope 1960-1970; Chapter 15. Social Deprivation: Education to the Rescue?; Chapter 16. Secondary Education: Academic and SocialSelection |
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Chapter 17. Higher EducationChapter 18. The Public Schools: Still a Force to beReckoned With; Conclusion; Appendices; Appendix 1. TUC Education Committee 1926-70; Chair/Secretaries; Appendix 2. Education Committee of the General Council of the TUC 1926-70 (Selected Years); Appendix 3. TUC General Council Representatives on External 'Educational' Organisations 1926-70 (Selected Years); Appendix 4. Educational backgrounds of chairpersons of major Education Committees/Reports 1926-70; Appendix 5. Educational backgrounds of Presidents/Ministers of Education 1926-70 |
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Appendix 6. Educational backgrounds of Reconstruction Committee -- Board of Education 1940Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book covers a crucial period for the development of state education in Britain; the advent of the comprehensive debate before and during the Second World War; the War years themselves and the 1944 Education Act; the post-War Labour Government; and Churchill's last government in a time of education expansion. From the 1960s, the focus shifted to questions of social deprivation and educational opportunities, secondary school selection, the debate on standards, Robbins and higher education, and the continuing theme of the dominance of public schools. The book is divided into four sect |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Trades Union Congress -- History -- 20th century
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| SUBJECT |
Trades Union Congress fast |
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Working class -- Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Labor unions and education -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Educational equalization -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Educational equalization
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Labor unions and education
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Working class -- Education
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Griggs, Clive
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| ISBN |
9781134723942 |
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1134723946 |
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