Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education: The City Technology College Experiment

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Geoff Whitty Tony Edwards

Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education

The City Technology College Experiment

Geoff Whitty, Tony Edwards, Sharon Gewirtz

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30 May 2024

Higher & further education, tertiary education; Technology: general issues

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1993, Specialisation and Choice in Urban Education explores how city technology colleges (CTC) have managed the task of selecting intakes representatives of their catchment areas and explore their impact on local schools. From their announcements in 1986, CTC have been presented both as a new choice of school for the inner city and as pointing the way to a more diversified education system. This account of their development uses interviews with key architects of the initiative to identify more clearly the objectives CTCs were designed to serve. It then draws on interviews and observation in CTCs themselves to discover how far these schools are becoming centres of innovation in school management, curriculum and approaches to teaching and learning. Throughout, the CTC policy is considered in the context of Government’s broader political project to challenge ‘welfarism’ and to encourage entrepreneurship, competition, and choice. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of education policy, sociology of education, and education in general.

By: Geoff Whitty, Tony Edwards, Sharon Gewirtz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781032270265
ISBN 10: 1032270268
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 30 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

List of Figures and tables Acknowledgements 1. City technology colleges: the concept and the context 2. The emergence of city technology colleges 3. Resistance and adaptation 4. Choosers and chosen 5. Centres of innovation? 6. Disturbing the system? 7. New schools for new times? Notes Bibliography Index

Geoff Whitty, Tony Edwards and Sharon Gewirtz