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Direct linkKu, Hsiao-Yuh – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
Brian Simon (1915-2002) was a leading advocate of comprehensive education in the second half of the twentieth century in Britain. In the 1980s, in the face of the ideological offensive from the New Right, he firmly stood by Marxist ideals and resolutely resisted policies of the right-wing leading to the 1988 Education Reform Act. Despite this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Politics of Education
Wrigley, Terry – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
This article reflects on the historic tensions of education under capitalism, arguing that they have been exacerbated in our era of neo-liberal globalisation. Government drives for greater "accountability" and "effectiveness" are a blinkered response to the threefold global crisis we face: poverty and debt; a collapse of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Ecology, Educational Change, Global Approach
