148 pages
228mm x 145mm
ISBN-10: 1 85856 301 1
ISBN-13: 978 185856 301 5
December 2003

John Eggleston's influence on education is still felt today. In his radical research project for Schools Council in the 1970s, he changed the school subject of Craft forever, shaping it into the subject of Design and Technology as now taught in the national curriculum. And in the 1980s he led a research team at at Keele University that theorised the sociology of education. The Eggleston Report, Education for Some, revealed the racism in education that the Swann Report, alongside which his study had been commissioned by the government, glossed over.
Till his death in December 2001, John continued to work with energy and vision in the areas of Design and Technology and towards social and racial justice, as his 21 books and numerous contributions to journals and edited books testify. His work was always at the leading edge of thinking and yet it remains pertinent today.

This tribute to the life and work of Professor John Eggleston brings together a selection of some of his most apposite writings. It is selected by Michael Marland and Gillian Klein.

'...chapters which record the sheer intellect and compassion that was John Eggleston.' - Improving Schools

'Do I recommend this book? Well, to those of you who remember John Eggleston as a visionary, a luminary who changed the face of some aspects of the British school curriculum and highlighted many inadequacies in the system, then - yes, I can. To those others who have a passion to consider the educational process, curriculum and analysis of such areas as work experience, racial inequality and social injustice- I say you will find this book of immense value. It is not a biography (although it does include a brief cv and an obituary) - it is a reflection on a most perceptive individual and his great contribution to educational planning an policy. - British Journal of Educational Technology.