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

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

Foreword;  Authors preface and acknowledgements;  1. Power, community schools, and Croxeth  2. Between the jaws of the nutcracker  3. The road to militancy  4. On an express train going 80 miles an hour  5. The field of interaction  6. A dual system of authority  7. The community of the Labour Party?  8. Politics and schooling  9. Community education and the Croxeth occupation;  Appendix;  Bibliography;  Index

In this book, first published in 1991, the author tells the story of a year of community schooling. Carspecken places all these events within a framework of sociological interpretation, developing throughout the book a new theory of intersubjectivity and its relation to power.