Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Critical Social Policy
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Dale, R.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

The Thatcherite project in education: the case of the City Technology Colleges

Roger Dale

Despite the broad coherence of the Thatcherite Project, it contains a central contradiction of which the CTCs are emblematic. The contradiction is described as 'conservative modernisation' - associated with economic liberalisation and social controle Examing the CTCs under four headings: choice, selection, control and content it is concluded that they have failed, in their aim to attract private funding, are unpopular with almost all educational forces outside govemment, and offer very little that is different from current secondary education.

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 9, No. 27, 4-19 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/026101838900902701
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?