Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem
Autor David Kynaston, Francis Greenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 feb 2019
Britain's private, fee-paying schools are institutions where children from affluent families have their privileges further entrenched through a high-quality, richly resourced education. There is an irrefutable link between private schools and life's gilded path: private school to top university to top career. Engines of Privilege contends that, in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, of fairness and of social cohesion, the educational apartheid separating private schools from our state schools deploys our national educational resources unfairly and inefficiently; blocks social mobility; reproduces privilege down the generations; and underpins a damaging democratic deficit in our society.
Intrinsic to any vision of the future of Britain has to be the nature of our educational system. Yet the quality of conversation on the issue of private education remains surprisingly sterile, patchy and highly subjective. Francis Green and David Kynaston carefully examine options for change, while drawing on the valuable lessons of history. Accessible, evidence-based and inclusive, Engines of Privilege aims to kick-start a long overdue national debate. Clear, vigorous prose is combined with forensic analysis to powerful effect, illuminating the painful contrast between the importance of private schools in British society and the near-absence of serious, policy-shaping debate.Toate formatele și edițiile | Preț | Express |
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ISBN-10: 1526601265
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Their tone is calm and evidence-based, not agitprop . They have made up my mind. I now feel clear not just that change is urgently needed, but that options for change are more varied, imaginative and realistic than I'd dared imagine
Fascinating
'[A] powerful attack on private schools as engines of privilege . a forensic examination of what the authors call "Britain's private school problem" . They start strong . leaving you in no doubt about the path from private schooling to the elite . This book does a fine job of explaining and damning Britain's private school problem
An excoriating account of the inequalities perpetuated by Britain's love affair with private schools
A passionate attack on private schools . Kynaston's flair for anecdotes shines through ... Fascinating
Timely
The historical background to our arguments over state and private education today is the most intriguing part of Engines of Privilege ... imbued with Kynaston's fascination with the arguments and mores of post-war Britain
Francis Green and David Kynaston say loud and clear that Britain's private schools are a social problem . This book provides warnings and lessons of what doesn't work and ideas of what policies could work to dismantle these 'engines of privilege'
A fresh dissection of what [Kynaston and Green] deem "Britain's private school problem" ... We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters
[A] forensic and damning examination of ... "Britain's private school problem"
David Kynaston is one of the great chroniclers of our modern story ... Every paragraph contains some glittering nugget
An exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously and plenty of focus on people and their quirks . Fascinating
This is the work of a scholar with a gift for illuminating every square inch of each enormous canvas he chooses to paint . Kynaston brings characters large and small to life
A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals