{"product_id":"9781032759104-creative-art-of-troublemaking-in-educat","title":"The Creative Art of Troublemaking in Education","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a lifetime’s experience and research in education, \u003cb\u003eFrank Coffield\u003c\/b\u003e brings together some of his previously published papers to assess the impact of a wide range of national educational policies and to examine the role of the state in public education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a lifetime’s experience and research in education, Frank Coffield brings together some of his previously published papers to assess the impact of a wide range of national educational policies and to examine the role of the state in public education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe concludes that damage has been done to education by political parties of both right and left and that damage will not be reversed until: further, vocational and adult education receive the same levels of commitment and resource as other sectors; serious steps are taken to tackle Britain’s unacceptable levels of poverty; and the powers of the state are reduced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the unresolved challenges highlighted are the plight of young people from deprived estates; their tactics in dealing with unemployment; the task of improving learning, schools, inspection, and system governance; the failure to increase productivity being blamed solely on education; and the dysfunctional and undemocratic political framework on which education reform is forced to depend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential read for anyone in education, this provocative criticism of our past and current educational 'system' provides an accessible as well as a humorous critique of educational policy and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41812014727265,"sku":"9781032759104","price":34.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29976213.jpg?v=1726054257","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032759104-creative-art-of-troublemaking-in-educat","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}