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Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Walford is Professor of Education Policy and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. Zusammenfassung This book brings together the assessments of key educational researchers who have been centrally involved with both the critique and implementation of various policy developments. This book is timely, and relates directly to the central education policy themes of the last decade. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Geoffrey Walford 2. Tony Blair, the promotion of the ‘active’ educational citizen, and middle-class hegemony Diane Reay 3. Zero tolerance of failure and New Labour approaches to school improvement in England Pam Sammons 4. Academies and diplomas: two strategies for shaping the future workforce Richard Hatcher 5. 14–19 Richard Pring 6. Faith-based schools in England after ten years of Tony Blair Geoffrey Walford 7. Realising the potential of new technology? Assessing the legacy of New Labour’s ICT agenda 1997–2007 Neil Selwyn 8. Tony Blair and the politics of race in education: whiteness, doublethink and New Labour David Gillborn 9. Making teaching a 21st century profession: Tony Blair’s big prize John Furlong 10. Beyond tuition fees? The legacy of Blair’s government to higher education Ingrid Lunt 11. New Labour, education and Wales: the devolution decade David Reynolds 12. Evaluating ‘Blair’s Educational Legacy?’: some comments on the special issue of Oxford Review of Education Geoff Whitty
