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The TUC and Education Reform, 1926-1970.

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 e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Griggs, Dr Clive
Otros Autores: Griggs, Clive
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Woburn education series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Appendix 6. Educational backgrounds of Reconstruction Committee
  • Board of Education 1940Bibliography; Index.