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OverviewHigher education provision is an essential component (socially as well as economically) of modern social structures. The British Labour Party and Higher Education focuses on the development of the Labour Party's policy on higher education from 1945 to 2000. It analyses the rapid expansion and series of fundamental transformations in higher education and Labour's part in both shaping and reacting to them. The authors explore the historical evolution and Labour's varying policy initiatives in the period, and question the place higher education has occupied in the various strands of Labour ideology. As always with Labourism', perspectives are contentious and contested, spanning the centralist Fabians', the liberal moralists, and the socialist left. How far, if at all, have Labour's policy stances in this area confronted the elite social reproduction functions of universities or the instrumentalist needs of corporate capitalism? Has this policy evolution given concrete evidence to support (Ralph) Miliband's pessimistic assessment of Labourism' as a political formation structurally unable to confront capitalist social structures, or to see a viable Third Way', as advocated by New Labour? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Tom Steele , Anthony Haynes , Anthony HaynesPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.451kg ISBN: 9780826440945ISBN 10: 0826440940 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 23 June 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviews'Richard Taylor and Tom Steele's detailed and informative study of higher education in the United Kingdom between 1945 and 2000 documents its development against a background of recurring economic crises and neo-conservative traditionalist and new labour pragmatist agendas. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of current debates about the role of the state in higher education and its ultimate purpose and function.' David Scott, Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment and Faculty Director of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Education, University of London, UK ‘Richard Taylor and Tom Steele's detailed and informative study of higher education in the United Kingdom between 1945 and 2000 documents its development against a background of recurring economic crises and neo-conservative traditionalist and new labour pragmatist agendas. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of current debates about the role of the state in higher education and its ultimate purpose and function.' David Scott, Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment and Faculty Director of Teaching and Learning, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Author InformationRichard Taylor is Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, where he was Professor and Director of the Institute of Continuing Education until 2009. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA), and has been Chair of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), and Secretary of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL). Tom Steele is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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