Education and Labour Party Ideologies 1900-2001and Beyond

Professor Denis Lawton

• Foreword and acknowledgements, 1. Nineteenth-century background, 2. The early years 1900-39: ideas and contradictions, 3. World War II 1939-45, 4. The Attlee governments 1945-51: missed opportunities in eduction, 5. Labour in opposition 1951-64: a chance to theorise and revise, 6. The Wilson governments 1964-70, 7. Health and a taste of Thatcher 1970-74, 8. Wilson and Callaghan 1974-79, 9. Thatcherism 1979-90, 10. A Labour education policy found and lost 1990-97, 11. Education, education, education or targets, targets, targets? 1997-2001, 12. The future of Labour education 2001-10 and beyond: targets or worthwhile learning, Postscript October 2003, Bibliography, Index

'Denis Lawton, with his usual style and panache, provides us with succinct and scholarly history in relation to a century and more of democratic socialist thinking and action on education … I salute Denis Lawton for undertaking this necessary appraisal and consider this book to be a decidedly practical contribution for students in the field of educational studies, politics and social policy.' - British Journal of Educational Studies'It is good to have, at a time when Labour's turn away from some of its historic positions appears to be almost complete, a book which, without nostalgia or loss of critical rigour, succinctly reminds us of an earlier legacy.' - Educational Review