Governing Education. A Sociology of Policy Since 1945

First published in 1988, this book was the winner of the SCSE Best Education Book award of that year. This new edition describes the government's attempts to control educational changes since 1945 and the resulting implications for contemporary explanations of schooling and the state in Britain. In interviews with officials, politicians and educationalists, key figures involved in the making and practice of policy talk about their careers and their attempts to control education and each other.