Table of Contents

Introduction  1. History and Sociology of Educational Policy  2. The Politics of Administrative Convenience – the case of middle schools  3. An Elite Transformed: Continuity and Change in 16–18 Educational Policy   4. Education and Local Government in the Light of Central Government Policy  5. Teachers’ Responses to the Cuts  6. The Peripheralisation of Youth in the Labour Market: Problems, Analyses and Opportunities: Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany  7. State Policy and School Examination 1976–82: An exploration of some implications of the sixteen-plus controversy  8. Schools for Democracy?  9. Accountability, Industry and Education – Reflections on Some Aspects of the Educational and Industrial Policies of the Labour Administrations of 1974–79  10. Thatcherism and Education  11. The Social Democratic Party, its Political Programme and Educational Policies: Revisionism Revisited and Re-formed