TY - BOOK ID - 1799957 TI - An educational war on poverty : American and British policy-making, 1960-1980 AU - Silver, Harold AU - Silver, Pamela PY - 1991 SN - 0521381495 0521025869 0511522355 0511831544 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social policy KW - United States KW - Great Britain KW - Education and state KW - -Education and state KW - -Poor children KW - -#SBIB:316.334.1O340 KW - #SBIB:316.334.1O212 KW - #SBIB:316.8H15 KW - #SBIB:HIVA KW - Children of the poor KW - Economically disadvantaged children KW - Poor children KW - Children KW - Education KW - Education policy KW - Educational policy KW - State and education KW - Endowment of research KW - History KW - -History KW - -Education KW - -Onderwijs en sociale verandering, onderwijs en samenleving KW - Onderwijsbeleid: nationaal KW - Welzijns- en sociale problemen: sociale ongelijkheid en armoede KW - Economic conditions KW - Government policy KW - Social conditions KW - -Social policy. KW - #SBIB:316.334.1O340 KW - Onderwijs en sociale verandering, onderwijs en samenleving KW - Social policy. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Education & Careers KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1799957 AB - This book analyses the parallel, different and related aspects of the discovery of poverty in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the role of education in the American 'war on poverty' from 1964, and in Britain from the appointment of the Plowden committee on primary schools. It examines changes in policy emphases, the relationship between research and policy, and the transatlantic interactions and silences involved. Based on archival and interview material the book offers new insights into the role of the Plowden committee in shifting attention from social class to poverty, and it discusses in both the American and British contexts the concepts and theories involved in the changing fortunes of the educational war on poverty in the 1960s and 1970s. An Educational War on Poverty represents a major contribution to the study of the recent social and educational history of Britain and the United States, and the range and depth of research, will make it an essential reference source for scholars and policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic. ER -