The Life and Death of Secondary Education for All (Paperback)

Part I Aims, Values and Culture 1. Secondary Education for All: Dream or Reality? 2. The Rise and Fall of Standards 3. The Aims of Education ? Watch Your Language 4. Transmission of Culture: But Whose? 5. A Pause ? the Need for Philosophy Part II Putting Aims into Practice 6. Can Education Compensate for Society? 7. Learning: a Wider Vision: ‘Learning How’ as well as ‘Learning That’ 8. Learning: a Wider Vision: Taking Experience Seriously 9. A Community of Learners in an Age of Communications Technology 10. Bring Back Curriculum Thinking 11. Bring Back Teaching 12. Testing, Testing, Testing: the Death of Education 13. ‘Know Thyself’: the Need for Guidance 14. Progression: Should We Take Employers and Universities Seriously? Part III Provision of Education 15. Public Service or Private Gain? 16. Providing for All 17. Have Faith in Schools? Conclusion 18. ‘Secondary Education for All’: Must It Be Just a Dream?