Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education

The City Technology College Experiment
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-27025-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1993, Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education explores how city technology colleges (CTC) have managed the task of selecting intakes representatives of their catchment areas and explore their impact on local schools. From their announcements in 1986, CTC have been presented both as a new choice of school for the inner city and as pointing the way to a more diversified education system. This account of their development uses interviews with key architects of the initiative to identify more clearly the objectives CTCs were designed to serve. It then draws on interviews and observation in CTCs themselves to discover how far these schools are becoming centres of innovation in school management, curriculum and approaches to teaching and learning. Throughout, the CTC policy is considered in the context of Government’s broader political project to challenge ‘welfarism’ and to encourage entrepreneurship, competition, and choice. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of education policy, sociology of education, and education in general.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whitty, Geoff

Edwards, Tony

Gewirtz, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and tables Acknowledgements 1. City technology colleges: the concept and the context 2. The emergence of city technology colleges 3. Resistance and adaptation 4. Choosers and chosen 5. Centres of innovation? 6. Disturbing the system? 7. New schools for new times? Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Whitty, Tony Edwards and Sharon Gewirtz