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Unintended but Always Significant? A Re-Examination of the Consequences of National Education Reform on Local Developments in the Pioneering of Comprehensive Schooling c.1918-1950
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Olsson Rost, Kerstin Anna Sofia – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
Using the case study of Anglesey and its pioneering comprehensive scheme, this paper aims to re-examine education reforms and interventions by central government c.1918-1950. This is undertaken in a bid to reveal the significance of such reforms for the way in which comprehensive secondary education was able to evolve at the local level.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy
Judicial Review of Educational Policy: The Teachings of Tameside.
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Alexander, Kern; Williams, Vivian – British Journal of Educational Studies, 1978
The authors examine the legal issues and administrative implications, under British law, of the Tameside case, in which local school authorities resisted the Secretary of State for Education's order to implement the comprehensive schools plan. (SJL)
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Court Litigation, Due Process, Educational Administration
Education in a Post-Comprehensive Era.
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Marklund, Sixten – British Journal of Educational Studies, 1981
With the change to comprehensive schools in Sweden completed, the author considers how education will be restructured in the future both at the compulsory and the post-compulsory levels. (SJL)
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Compulsory Education, Core Curriculum, Educational Change