British Education at the Crossroads: Social Justice or Excellence?

Autor/in	Litt, Edgar
Titel	British Education at the Crossroads: Social Justice or Excellence?
Quelle	(1975), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Comparative Education; Educational Change; Educational Development; Educational Policy; Educational Research; Educational Strategies; Equal Education; Higher Education; Political Influences; Public Education; Resource Allocation; Secondary Education; Vocational Education; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Bildungsreform; Bildungsentwicklung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Lehrstrategie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Öffentliche Erziehung; Ressourcenallokation; Sekundarbereich; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung
Abstract	The educational policy of the British Labor Party stresses the provision of quality education regardless of social class background. In a time of downward economic spiral, the Labor Party is committed to education for social justice through the redistribution of resources and research priorities, as well as the reorganization of the educational system. Budget decisions have redistributed funds from elite British universities to the comprehensive secondary schools and vocational colleges. Postsecondary reorganization involves efforts to merge the patch quilt of polytechnical schools, colleges of education, and colleges of further education under a single local authority. At the secondary level, comprehensive schools and semiprivate, direct grant schools are being merged to provide a strong alternative to expensive and exclusive private schools. Research and development funds are being shifted from open-ended cultural and scientific support to programmatic research designed to rescue a beleagured political economy. More money is being infused into trade union projects, workers' economic cooperatives, adult education programs, and vocational training. The belief is that worker incentives are critical to economic productivity and recovery. (Author/DE)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC