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Book SynopsisThe United Kingdom General Election on 1st May 1997 gave a landslide victory to a re-vitalised Labour Party. Tony Blair became Prime Minister with a huge Commons majority of 179 over all other parties. Such a majority meant that extensive changes of policy could be implemented with little effective opposition.
During the election campaign Tony Blair had repeatedly claimed that the top three priorities of a New Labour government would be 'education, education, education' , and on page two of the Labour Party's election manifesto a smiling Blair is seen with Nelson Mandela - the unacknowledged originator of the oratorical education triplet. Following a third Election victory in 2005 and after over ten years as Prime Minister, Blair finally stepped down to Gordon Brown in mid-2007, but only after a promotional âfinal tourâ that lasted several months. Towards the end, Blair devoted considerable efforts to try to ensure that his legacy would be positive and that he would be rememb
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Geoffrey Walford 2. Tony Blair, the promotion of the ‘active’ educational citizen, and middle-class hegemony Diane Reay 3. Zero tolerance of failure and New Labour approaches to school improvement in England Pam Sammons 4. Academies and diplomas: two strategies for shaping the future workforce Richard Hatcher 5. 14–19 Richard Pring 6. Faith-based schools in England after ten years of Tony Blair Geoffrey Walford 7. Realising the potential of new technology? Assessing the legacy of New Labour’s ICT agenda 1997–2007 Neil Selwyn 8. Tony Blair and the politics of race in education: whiteness, doublethink and New Labour David Gillborn 9. Making teaching a 21st century profession: Tony Blair’s big prize John Furlong 10. Beyond tuition fees? The legacy of Blair’s government to higher education Ingrid Lunt 11. New Labour, education and Wales: the devolution decade David Reynolds 12. Evaluating ‘Blair’s Educational Legacy?’: some comments on the special issue of Oxford Review of Education Geoff Whitty
