Community Schooling and the Nature of Power

The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-24444-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education

In 1981, Liverpool Council ordered the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School because of falling rolls. The local residents protested, and when this failed occupied the school and for a year ran it themselves with the help of volunteer teachers. Phil Carspecken was one of those volunteers, and this book, first published in 1991, tells the stor

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carspecken, Phil Francis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Author’s preface and acknowledgements; 1. Power, community schools, and Croxeth 2. Between the jaws of the nutcracker 3. The road to militancy 4. On an express train going 80 miles an hour 5. The field of interaction 6. A dual system of authority 7. The community of the Labour Party? 8. Politics and schooling 9. Community education and the Croxeth occupation; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Phil Francis Carspecken