Political Relationship and Narrative Knowledge: A Critical Analysis of School Authoritarianism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780897896900)

Armitage taught for one year in a British grammar school from 1971 to 1972 when the school amalgamated with a secondary modern school to form a comprehensive school. He followed the political practices and episodes of the amalgamation in relation to their political and educational significance.

The amalgamation seemed to result in an ineffective and underperforming school and he tried to introduce practical and constructive changes. His narrative describes his political struggle to reform the school in the face of an anti-democratic and authoritarian culture. The causes of failure are analyzed, and the real, complex, and messy functioning of a school system uncovered. The need to understand the politics and culture of schooling is advocated. A model of micropolitical action and responsibility is demonstrated that could help result in improvement of educational institutions.

Author: Peter Armitage
ISBN-10: 0897896904
ISBN-13: 9780897896900
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2000
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.66h x 6.44w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 138