Contemporary universities are very much an integral part of communities. However, while much has been written about teaching and research in universities, the “service” role of universities has been neglected. In an attempt to address this imbalance, The AcademicCitizen looks at how these three roles interrelate and explores the idea of a compact between universities and society.This book argues that in order to achieve a compact, we need to re-evaluate the poorly rewarded aspects of...

“…required reading for anyone wanting a grip on the new, mass, further and higher continuing education in Britain…meanings of HE are expressed in such style and with so much detail as to demand debate by as wide a readership as this essential text deserves.” - “Education Today & Tomorrow”. This book is the first systematic attempt to analyse the growth of mass higher education in a specifically British context, while seeking to develop more theoretical perspectives...

Mairtin Mac an Ghaill explores how boys learn to be men in schools while policing their own and others’ sexuality. He focuses on the students’ confusions and contradictions in their gendered experiences and upon how schools produce, through the official and hidden curriculum, a range of masculinities which young men come to inhabit. He does full justice to the complex phenomenon of male heterosexual subjectivites and to the role of schooling in forming sexual identities.

TVEI (The Technical and Vocational Education Initiative) is in many ways the most important educational innovation of the postwar period in the UK. It signalled the final collapse of the settlement instituted by the 1944 Education Act, and prepared the ground for the settlement currently being installed in its place via the 1988 Education Act. It changed the relationship between schools, local authorities and central government in ways that will be difficult to reverse. TVEI proved a catalyst to...

Gaby Weiner presents an overview of recent developments in feminist educational thinking and practice in Britain, exploring the ethical and professional challenges which now face feminist teachers and educators. The main aim of the text is to introduce issues relating to gender, curriculum, pedagogy and practice. It also affirms the good news of the transformative powers of feminist consciousness as well as the bad news of social inequality. The author relates feminist thinking and practice to her...

This work is concerned with developing education for social justice and challenging inequalities in society. Through a series of historically-located articles ranging from personal stories, through examples of “good practice”, to theoretical analyses of the interweaving of heterosexism, sexism and racism, the work traces the ways in which oppressions are constructed and played out within and through the system of schooling and through education policies. The majority of contributors are...

The author anticipates the implications of a fall in the number of school leavers and considers the likely effects of this on employment, recruitment and government training policy.