Does Scottish education need traditions?
Scottish education was, until quite recently, the conscious product of liberal tradition, of the belief by influential elites that the nation's educational history was strong, coherent, and progressive, a source of economic flexibility, of modernising ideas, and of liberal opportunity. In recent dec...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 269 - 282 |
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