The book compiles Frank Coffield's extensive research and insights into national educational policies, evaluating their impact on public education. It critically examines the state's role in shaping educational practices, drawing from a wealth of experience and previously published works. This comprehensive assessment offers valuable perspectives on the evolution and effectiveness of educational initiatives.
First published in 1999. This concludes work on a series Current Issues in Criminal Justice. Criminology. The book represents another milestone in a criminologist’s journey to uncover some “truths” about the discipline and to reflectcritically on how that field has evolved. This journey, some of youmay remember, began in The Sociology of Criminological or Fad and continued in The Demise of the CriminologicalImagination. To date, this latest work has already attracted considerabledebate and in the tradition of C. Wright Mills, engendered somewhatheated discussion about the philosophy of criminology and the logic ofits paradigms. What is perhaps most exciting about this work is that it is critical, in the true sense of critical, a term that has been abused and overused.
The last great rethink of the welfare system was the Beveridge Report of 1942.
This short book has been written for the benefit of educators who currently despair of a continuation of the policies which inform the approach of both the previous and the new coalition government of the UK. It argues for a major change both in the daily practice of education and in the curriculum in order to deal with such threats to the collective well-being as environmental damage; intensified global competition; corrosive social inequalities in and between nations in the world; and the need for a new, just and sustainable economic model.
A Scrapbook of Images from the Kyle Mallaig and Highland Lines.
While out and about (drinking, naturally) Spike gets in trouble over a girl (of course) and finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy that involves Hellmouths, blood factories, and demons. Just another day in Los Angeles, really. But when devil Eddie Hope gets involved, they might just kill each other before getting to the bad guys!