Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive

Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive - Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education

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In 1981, Liverpool Council ordered the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School because of falling rolls. The local residents protested, and when this failed occupied the school and for a year ran it themselves with the help of volunteer teachers. Phil Carspecken was one of those volunteers, and this book, first published in 1991, tells the stor

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Book information

ISBN: 9781138244443
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 371.190942753
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 212
Weight: 296g
Height: 216mm
Width: 137mm
Spine width: 24mm