Education and the Law

This edited collection addresses a subject which is topical not only in Britain, where there has been a spate of laws and regulations affecting the structure and content of education, but also in developed and developing countries, where the overriding motivation in many cases has been to raise economic performance. The first part of the book deals with the way legislation affects education and training both directly and tangentially, and how the law through its influence on such things as participation rates, certification and employer involvement can affect the level and degree of economic activity. Contributors examine the education systems of the USA, Kenya, Japan, Germany, Nigeria, Britain and France to illustrate the interdependence of the elements involved. The second part focuses on the concept of curriculum control. Chapters take a comparative approach to what is taught in the classroom and how the implementation of legislation affects all aspects of a country's education system.

Witold Tulasiewicz lectures in education at the Universities of Cambridge and Calgary. Gerald Strowbridge lectures in the Department of Staff and Curriculum Development at South Kent College. They have been, respectively, Secretary and Chairman of the British Comparative and International Education Society.

Part A The law and education: economic development 1 Legislation and minority rights in higher education: American and Kenyan case studies 2 Education, legislation and economic performance: the case of Japan 3 Improvements in work-force qualifications in Britain and France in the 1980s 4 Law and vocational education and training of 16-19 year olds: the English experience since 1979 5 Legislation, university education and economic performance: the Nigerian experience 6 Constraints on female participation in education in developing countries 7 Greek education and its legislative framework 8 Education laws and schooling: the case of the German Democratic Republic Part B The law and education: institutions and the curriculum 9 The judicial control of the curriculum and court intervention in aspects of education: cases from the international scene 10 The education of prisoners 11 Education for citizenship: school life and society-British-European comparisons 12 Teacher mobility and conditions of service in the European Community 13 The changing roles and responsibilities of school governors 14 Local management of schools: an English case study 15 Opting out and legal challenge