The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentiet

The subject matter of this book – what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not �

When first published this book had a significant influence on the campaign for comprehensive schools and it spoke to generations of working-class students who w

The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education

Annotation Originally published in 1968.