Ideas, institutions, and the politics of schools in postwar Britain and Germany / Gregory Baldi.
Baldi, Gregory, author.
2022
LC93.G7
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Title Ideas, institutions, and the politics of schools in postwar Britain and Germany / Gregory Baldi.
Author Baldi, Gregory, author.
ISBN 9783030981563 (electronic bk.)
3030981568 (electronic bk.)
9783030981556
303098155X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98156-3
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-98156-3 doi
Call Number LC93.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification 372.941
Summary This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe, namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of continuity and change in postwar schooling in Britain and the Federal Republic Germany, Gregory Baldi seeks to contribute to more general understandings of educations place in the welfare state, the development of social institutions, and the relationship between material and ideational factors in shaping political outcomes over time. Gregory Baldi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Western Illinois University, USA. His work has been published in West European Politics and The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. A masterful account of how the education systems of Britain and Germany have developed in different directions over the past decades, in spite of starting from relatively similar positions after the Second World War. Contributing to a growing dynamic literature exploring the political foundations of education policy, this book adds an innovative and important aspect to the debate by pointing to the central role of discourses and ideas in shaping policy trajectories. A must-read for everybody interested in education and inequality. - Marius R. Busemeyer, University of Konstanz, Germany Elegantly demonstrates the power of ideas and discourses for the politics of education. Gregory Baldi fills an important gap in the literature on the politics of education, which has largely neglected the role of ideas and discourses. The book offers a novel argument and well-researched case studies on school policies in Germany and Britain to show that we cannot understand the politics of education without paying attention to discourses and ideas. The book explains why policy-makers in Britain and Germany chose distinct policy paths, with far-reaching consequences for educational and socio-economic inequality. - Julian Garritzmann, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 27, 2022).
Series Palgrave studies in the history of childhood.
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1. Introduction
2. Organizing General Education
3. Explaining Educational Outcomes
4. Britain I: The Tripartite System
5. Britain II: Shifting Discourses in Education
6. Britain III: Comprehensive Change
7. Germany I: The Reconstruction of General Education
8. Germany II: Historical Legacies and Frozen Discourses
9. Germany III: The Failure of Reform
10. The Contemporary Politics of Schooling
11. Conclusion: The Ideational Logic of Comparative Education.

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