Education Policy Unravelled

Gillian Forrester is Principal Lecturer and Deputy Centre Leader for Education and Childhood Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Dean Garratt is Reader in Education in the Faculty of Education and Children's Services at the University of Chester, UK.

• 1. The Development of Education Policy in the Modern Era; 2. Education: Improvement or Control?; 3. Policy and Social Justice; 4. The Evolving Primary Curriculum; 5. Post-compulsory Education; 6. Economics of Education; 7. Education and Ethnicity; 8 Globalisation and Policy Borrowing; 9. Possibilities for Education Policy; References; Index.

‘We need to talk about education policy, and Dean Garratt and Gillian Forrester have provided the scholarship and agenda to be able to do this and to do this well. This is an ambitious text and they have presented not only a framework for engaging with policy, but also the debates about key issues challenging the security of public education. They show that we need to talk about matters to do with the curriculum and workforce, in schools and the post compulsory sector, and that these discussions need to be linked to bigger issues of social justice and democratic renewal. This is a book worth reading and thinking about tough issues with, and it will help children, parents, professionals and researchers to directly engage with issues that directly affect their engagement with education.' Helen Gunter, Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership and Management, University of Manchester, UK