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Governing education

by Andrew McPherson

Education and stateEducational sociologyHistoryEducation, scotlandEducation, political aspectsEducational sociology, great britain

First published in 1988, this book describes government attempts to control educational changes since 1945 and the resulting implications for contemporary explanations of schooling and the state in Britain. Figures in policy making talk about their attempts to control education and each other.

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