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    Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education
    Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education
    Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education
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    Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education

    By Gary McCulloch, Antonio F. Canales and Hsiao-Yuh Ku

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    This is the first full-length study of the life and career of Brian Simon (1915-2002), leading Marxist intellectual and historian of education in twentieth-century Britain. Using documentary sources that have only recently become publicly available, it reveals the remarkably broad range of Simon’s life as student, soldier and school teacher, Communist Party activist, and educational academic, campaigner and reformer. In a sympathetic biography that yet retains critical distance, the authors analyse Simon’s contribution to Marxism and the Communist Party. They explore the influence of both on his work as a historian of education and trace the significance of his Marxist beliefs, political associations and historical approach to the cause of educational reform. In so doing, they consider the full nature and limitations of Simon’s achievements in his struggle for education. Unlike many Marxist scholars he remained loyal to the Communist Party in the 1950s, which damaged his reputation as a public intellectual. Nevertheless, his support for comprehensive education helped to promote egalitarian educational reforms in Britain, although he was later unable to provide sufficient resistance to the 1988 Education Reform Act and to a decline in the position of the comprehensive schools.

    In all this, the significance of Simon’s family, and especially his relationship with his wife Joan is to the fore. Joan and Brian forged a formidable 60-year partnership, in politics and the Communist Party as well as in life, that lasted until Brian’s death in January 2002.

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    'a very interesting book for historians of education and the best overall work about the thought and work of Brian Simon.'
    Historia y Memoria de la Educación

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUCL Press
    Release dateSep 21, 2023
    ISBN9781787359840
    Brian Simon and the Struggle for Education
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    Gary McCulloch

    Gary McCulloch is the inaugural Brian Simon Professor of the History of Education and the founding director of the International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE) at the IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. He is a past president of the UK History of Education Society and the British Educational Research Association, and a past Editor of the international journals History of Education and British Journal of Educational Studies. His recent publications include The Struggle for the History of Education, A Social History of Educational Studies and Research, Transnational Perspectives on Curriculum History and Cultural History of Education. He is the leader of an Economic and Social Research Council research project on the School Meals Service.

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