Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied LinguisticsOriginally published 1978. This volume examines the purpose and the functioning of the present education system in England.
In the early 1970s the crisis in schools, particularly in urban areas, had escalated. At the same time a number of writers had advocated either the abolition or the recasting of the school system as a
This book examines the quality as well as the quantity of contemporary education as it answers the following questions: Are we getting value for money? What makes a good teacher? What sort of educatio
