'Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation' John O'Farrell
‘We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters ... The appeal to act is heartfelt’ Financial Times
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Includes a new chapter, 'Moving Ahead?'
Britain’s private, fee-paying schools are institutions where children from affluent families have their privileges further entrenched through a high-quality, richly-resourced education. Engines of Privilege contends that, in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, of fairness and of social cohesion, the educational apartheid separating private schools from our state schools deploys our national educational resources unfairly; blocks social mobility; reproduces privilege down the generations; and underpins a damaging democratic deficit in our society.
Francis Green and David Kynaston carefully examine options for change, while drawing on the valuable lessons of history. Clear, vigorous prose is combined with forensic analysis to powerful effect, illuminating the painful contrast between the importance of private schools in British society and the near-absence of serious, policy-shaping debate.
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'An excoriating account of the inequalities perpetuated by Britain’s love affair with private schools' The Times
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Thoroughly researched and written with such calm authority, yet makes you want to scream with righteous indignation
A rigorous, compelling and balanced examination of the British private school system and the lifetime inequalities it entrenches
For readers of Owen Jones's The Establishment (over 300,000 TCM), Mike Savage's Social Class in the 21st Century (12,500 TCM), Yanis Varoufakis' And the Weak Suffer What They Must? (55,000 TCM) and Lynsey Hanley's Respectable (nearly 8,000 TCM)
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781526601278
Publisert
2019-09-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
236 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336