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Wood, Margaret; Pennington, Andrew; Su, Feng – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
This paper examines and evaluates some aspects of the legacy of the West Riding of Yorkshire County Council and its long serving Chief Education Officer, Sir Alec Clegg, who held the post between 1945 and 1974. Against a subsequent political discourse of markets, choice and autonomy which portrays local authorities as the cause of poor educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy