Education Policy and the Political Right - 9781032029450

Taylor & Francis

Education Policy and the Political RightThe Burning Fuse beneath Schooling in the US, UK and Australia\nAuthor(s): Grant Rodwell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032029450, 978-1032029450\nSynopsis\nThis work attempts a comparative description and analysis, focusing on the US, the UK, and Australia on the topic of the Right, educational policy, and schooling. It adopts as its underlying theme the burning fuse in tracing the topic back to Joseph de Maistre a Rightist who fled revolutionary France to seek safety in the company of Tsar Alexander Is Russian Empire. Here, he had much to say about school education, not for all, but rather the deserving social elite.\nDuring the past three or four decades in the US, the UK, and Australia, the Right has been remarkably successful in amassing political power. And in doing so, the right of politics in these countries has reshaped school educational policy and practice, a n.