The Sun Sets on Old England: Contradictions in Conservative Educational Policy |
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Authors: | Ken Jones |
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Institution: | 1. Education Policy and Research, National Education Union, London, UKken.jones@gold.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThe article describes the increasing discrepancy between the curriculum policies of the Conservative government and the policy directions argued for by business organisations and other advocates of a human capital perspective in education. It traces some of the origins of the current Conservative preference for cultural rather than economic goals in this area of policy, and suggests a new understanding of the relationship between neoconservative and neoliberal thinking on the educational right. It argues that a return to ideas and practices developed in the late twentieth century offers a basis for curriculum policy more productive than either human capital theory or Conservative traditionalism. |
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Keywords: | Conservatism England curriculum education policy |
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