How education became nobody’s business

Barry Macdonald

doi:10.1080/0305764960260207

How education became nobody’s business

Barry Macdonald

School of Education & Lifelong Learning

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Abstract

Political control has yielded a compulsory school curriculum of mindnumbing sterility, devoid of educational imagination or intelligence, and enforced by a crude technology. How did this come to be the outcome of a century of mass education, mass democracy, and social research? Where do educators and educational researchers go from here?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	241-249
Number of pages	9
Journal	Cambridge Journal of Education
Volume	26
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764960260207
Publication status	Published - 1996

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