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Enabling the Learning Society
In this important attempt to reorient the theory and practice of public management, Stewart Ranson and John Stewart argue that public organisations mu...
Promotes a "learning society", which would create the conditions for motivation in the classroom. Ranson looks at the needs of education in a society ...
The Crisis of Recognition
Facing fundamental changes to the climate, the environment and the nature of work will require cooperative action for an effective response. This pres...
The Making of Learning Communities
Education and Democratic Participation is an important and timely contribution to the emerging debate surrounding the value of educating citizens and ...
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Originally published in 1990. The rapid decline in the birth rate in the 1970s and the resulting fall in school rolls had a dramatic effect on the cur...
First published in 1977, Clergy, Ministers and Priests provides the first sociological analysis to have been undertaken in this country of the differe...
Concise Report
Assuring Quality and Accountability
This book examines the changing role and structure of local government in education. The book argues for the continued role of the LEA in the educatio...
The Politics of Public Policy
First published in 1985, Between Centre and Locality provides the detailed accounts of the relations between central and local government in Britain s...
The Case for Participatory Democracy
This book is about the challenge of our time to re-imagine a democracy that empowers everyday citizens to participate in remaking the communities in w...
Family Centres and the Expansion of Learning
Family centres in Great Britain provide a base for local family support services and facilities for family learning. This study explores the contribut...