Freeing education : steps towards real choice and diversity in schools
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Freeing education : steps towards real choice and diversity in schools
（Social ecology series）
Hawthorn Press, c1996
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"A collection of papers arising from the European Colloquium on Education: New Educational Environments--Rights, Responsibilities and Initiatives, held at the University of Oxford, Easter, 1995. The colloquium was organized by Human Scale Education and the European Forum for Freedom in Education."
Includes bibliographical references
"Foreword by Lord Young of Dartington"--Cover
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Description
Covering the key questions of how to develop diversity in education, this is a book for policy-makers, teachers, governors and parents to use to bring about positive change. Leading educationists from Britain and the USA give the case for diversity of school provision. Three case studies from Christian, Muslim and Steiner schools give guidance on the problems of "opting in" to the state system. The rights of parents, children and teachers to greater choice with a more equitable state system are thoroughly explored. The book arose from the Oxford University 1995 conference on educational choice and freedom in Europe. Features of the book include: information about greater diversity and choice amongst state-supported schools in the USA, Holland, Denmark and Germany; state schools are shown how to free themselves from the National Curriculum and gain extra resources as a result; useful addresses, contacts and resources are provided; the rights of pupils, parents and teachers to freedom of education and state funding as stated by the European Parliament, the UN and the UK Parliament; and suggestions as to what parents, teachers, officials and pupils can do as next steps.
Table of Contents
- Foreword: go for diversity! - Michael Young. Introduction to freeing education - Mary Tasker
- Part 1 The case for freeing schools: role of the state in education - Richard Pring
- diversity, excellence and choice - beyond the comprehensive school - David H. Hargreaves
- choice as a vehicle for the revitalization of America's inner-city schools - Robert Peterkin
- financing free education, Rudolf Mees
- educational freedom across Europe - Fiona Carnie
- Part 2 How to build more diversity and real choice in education: third-sector alliance - schools that want to join the state system - Colin Hodgetts
- "opting in" under the 1993 Education Act - a case study of Oak Hill School, Bristol - Ruth Deakin
- Steiner schools in Ireland - a case study of opting in - Paddy McEvoy
- Muslim schools in England and Wales - Ibrahim Hewitt
- denationalizing the curriculum - from bureaucratic monolith to safety-net - James Tooley
- Part 3: Education for sustainability - Crispin Tickell
- education in partnership with nature - Andreas Suchantke
- Appendices: private schools in Denmark
- politicians avoid the question of freeing education - how to raise this in your school and community
- international declarations and conventions on the rights of education and the freedom of education - Michael Young's Small Schools (1988) Amendment
- resources and contacts
- following up "Freeing Education".
by "Nielsen BookData"