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서명/저자사항 | The crisis of the meritocracy : Britain's transition to mass education since the second world war/ Peter Mandler. |
개인저자 | Mandler, Peter,author. |
판사항 | First Edition. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
기타형태 저록 | Print version: MANDLER, PETER. CRISIS OF THE MERITOCRACY. [Place of publication not identified] OXFORD UNIV Press, 2020 0198840144 |
ISBN | 9780192576477 019257647X 9780192576460 0192576461 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
요약 | Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? 0The Crisis of the Meritocracy answers this question not by looking to politicians and educational reforms, but to the revolution in attitudes and expectations amongst the post-war British public - the rights guaranteed by the welfare state, the hope of a better life for one's children, widespread upward mobility from manual to non-manual occupations, confidence in the importance of education in a 'learning society' and a 'knowledge economy'. 0As a result of these transformations, 'meritocracy' - the idea that a few should be selected to succeed - has been challenged by democracy and its wider understandings of equal opportunity across the life course. At a time when doubts have arisen about whether we need so many students, and amidst calls for a return to grammar-school selection at 11, the tension between meritocracy and democracy remains vital to understanding why our grandparents, our parents, ourselves and our children have0sought and got more and more education - and to what end. |
일반주제명 | Education and state --Great Britain --History --20th century. Educational change --Great Britain --History --20th century. |
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