| British Labour and Higher Education, 1945 to 2000: Ideologies, Policies and Practice Contributor(s): Taylor, Richard (Author), Steele, Tom (Author), Haynes, Anthony (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0826440940 ISBN-13: 9780826440945 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $242.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Education | Physical Education |
| Dewey: 378.410 |
| LCCN: 2010048217 |
| Series: Continuum Studies in Educational Research |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.88 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Higher 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? |