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Title The Gove legacy : education in Britain after the coalition / edited by Mike Finn.

Publication Info. [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Pivot, 2015.

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Summary Michael Gove was, without question, a pivotal figure in British educational reform. The four years he was Secretary of State for Education and the five years the coalition was in office heralded a new era for school structures, examination systems, curricula design and content and the reassertion of purportedly 'traditional' values of 'academic' education. This team of experts, drawn from academia, think-tanks and trade unions, offer an unrivalled early assessment of the impact of Gove, and his reforms, on the British educational landscape. With authors from a variety of professional backgrounds and political viewpoints, this book seeks both to situate Gove's legacy in historical perspective and offer insights as to likely future directions of travel in the educational world left behind. It is a volume which seeks to bridge the divide between policymakers and practitioners in appraising the impact of one of the most controversial education ministers of recent times.
Contents Introduction: The Gove Ascendancy -- Michael Gove as Secretary of State for Education; Mike Finn -- 1. The Gove Legacy in State Education; Brian Lightman -- 2. The Gove Legacy in Independent Schools: The Making and Unmaking of a Supreme Goviet; Tim Hands -- 3. The Gove Legacy in the Curriculum: The Case of History; Katharine Burn -- 4. The Gove Legacy: Where Policy Meets the Pupil; Mick Waters -- 5. Education Beyond the Gove Legacy: The Case of Higher Education; Roger Brown -- 5b. Education Beyond the Gove Legacy: The Case of Higher Education (2): Ideology in Action; Mike Finn -- 6. Opening Doors or Narrowing Opportunities?: The Coalition's Approach to Widening Participation, Social Mobility and Social Justice; Konstanze Spohrer -- 7. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015; Jonathan Simons -- 7b. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015 (2): Skills and accountability; Steve Besley -- 7c. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015 (3): Can the legacy endure?; Louis Coffait -- Conclusion: The Gove Legacy in Education; Mike Finn.
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Subject Gove, Michael.
Educational change -- Great Britain.
Education -- Great Britain.
EDUCATION -- Essays.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION -- Reference.
Education
Educational change
Great Britain
Added Author Finn, Mike, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9781349504503
ISBN 9781137491510 (electronic bk.)
1137491515 (electronic bk.)
9781349504503
1349504505
Standard No. 10.1057/9781137491510