British Labour and Higher Education, 1945 to 2000

Ideologies, Policies and Practice

By:

Tom Steele

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Continuum Studies in Educational Research

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Higher education provision is an essential component (socially as well as economically) of modern social structures. British Labour and Higher Education focuses on the development of Labour 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?

Author Biography:

Richard 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

Release date Australia

November 22nd, 2012

Author

Tom Steele

Audience

Professional & Vocational

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Series edited by Anthony Haynes

Pages

192

Series

Continuum Studies in Educational Research

Dimensions

156x234x10

ISBN-13

9781441123169

Product ID

20982107

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