Professor contributes to major new work on education
Patrick Ainley, Professor of Training & Education at the University of Greenwich, is among the contributors to a major new book exploring the state school system and education policy during the past 14 years.
No Country For The Young: Education from New Labour to the Coalition, published by the Tufnell Press, explores a variety of themes across the whole field of Coalition education policy, including whether the unprecedented cuts in public services will give rise to effective opposition and resistance, and to increased student militancy.
With co-author Dr Martin Allen, an NUT activist and part-time teacher, Professor Ainley focuses on upper secondary schooling and the collapsing youth labour market.
Professor Ainley says: “Our chapter ranges from primary to postgraduate schools to show the coherence of the Coalition government’s policies for education. We argue the latter marks the end, not only of higher education as it has developed since the war but, more broadly, of progressive reform aimed at changing society through education since 1965. The chapter also shows the continuity between New Labour's ‘marketising’ of public services like education, and the Coalition's privatising of them.”
No Country For The Young: Education from New Labour to the Coalition, edited by Richard Hatcher and Ken Jones, is available from leading bookstores and from Amazon.
E-booklets and other writings by Professor Ainley and Dr Allen are available at http://radicaled.wordpress.com
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