Education! Education! Education!
| By: | Stephen Prickett, Patricia Erskine-Hill |
| Publisher: | Andrews UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9780907845362 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781845404734 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2013 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The essays in this book criticise the new positivism in education policy, whereby education is systematically reduced to those things that can be measured by so-called 'objective' tests. School curricula have been narrowed with an emphasis on measurable results in the 3 R's and the 'quality' of university departments is now assessed by managerial exercises based on commercial audit practice. As a result, the traditional notion of liberal arts education has been replaced by utilitarian productivity indices.