{"product_id":"policy-and-power-in-education-harold-heller-9781032960890","title":"Policy and Power in Education: The Rise and Fall of the Lea","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fortunes of the education service in Britain have been intimately bound up with the vitality of the local education authorities, particularly in the decades following the 1944 Education Act. The passing of the 1988 Education Reform Act saw the LEAs in serious--perhaps terminal--decline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1992, \u003ci\u003ePolicy and Power in Education \u003c\/i\u003esets out to map the contours of this decline in power. It relates these changing fortunes not only to the social and political environment in Britain but also to wider developments in the industrialised world. It argues that post-colonial decline, economic retreat and insular self-satisfaction combined with basic structural flaws in the LEA system threaten its very existence in the last decade of the millennium. The capacity of the system to reform itself into more responsive modes is left as an open question in the face of ever tightening constraints from the Thatcherite tendency in government. The associated challenge to the curriculum is also explored, with the suggestion that an over-prescribed and specified curriculum will prove to be maladaptive against rapidly changing conditions for the twenty-first century. New paradigms of learning are described, while the broadly irrelevant search for utopias on the left is also sceptically reviewed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harold Heller,Peter Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032960892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032960890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"Harold Heller","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997539774719,"sku":"9781032960890","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/policy-and-power-in-education-harold-heller-9781032960890","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}