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040    LHM |beng |erda |cLHM
090    LA634 |b.B35 2010
100 1  Baldi, Gregory Charles.
245 14 The politics of differentiation : |beducation reform in postwar Britain and Germany / |cGregory Charles Baldi.
264  0  |c2010.
300    v, 306 pages
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
502    Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2010.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-306).
520    This dissertation examines the structural evolution of the general systems of education in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II and seeks to explain an important empirical puzzle, namely why Britain reformed its early postwar policy of placing students in separate secondary schools on the basis of perceived ability while Germany has retained the practice. It maintains that the variation observed in the case studies is largely explained by two factors: (1) the institutional framework of educational policymaking in both countries; and (2) the timing of changes in dominant policy discourses. In Britain, new sociological and psychological conceptions concerning the nature of human ability led policymakers to rethink fundamentally the ideational foundation of differentiation in education, leading to political reforms in the mid-1960s that created a single "comprehensive" state secondary school model attended by nearly all students. In West Germany, by contrast, cultural federalism and structural legacies from the Nazi era served to retard the application of modern social science techniques to education. The result was a fatal delay in the introduction of reform initiatives to modernize the school system.
530    Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM.
533    Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services. |e22 cm.
590    Dissertations and Theses
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Education, Secondary |zGreat Britain |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Education, Secondary |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Educational change |zGreat Britain |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Educational change |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Education and state |zGreat Britain |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Education and state |zGermany |xHistory |y20th century.
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956 41  |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib216121/3398941.pdf |zHosted by USHMM.
852 0   |bstacks |hLA634 |i.B35 2010
852     |bebook