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Ku, Hsiao-Yuh – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2013
This paper examines the continuity and changes in Clarke's ideas about the State and community in education, especially in relation to a rapidly changing political situation in England in the 1930s and 1940s. His ideas evolved in the intellectual context of British idealism. Moreover, in response to the threat to democracy arising from Fascism or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Democracy, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education
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Ku, Hsiao-Yuh – History of Education, 2013
Fred Clarke (1880-1952), an English educationist, emerged as a leading figure with his liberal approach alongside such key figures as R. H. Tawney and Cyril Norwood in the reform leading to the 1944 Education Act. Many of his reform proposals, which were provided by the new Act, reflected his ideals of liberal democracy. Nevertheless, his…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Democracy, Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries