Community Schooling and the Nature of Power: An Analysis of the Battle for Croxteth Comprehensive

by Michael W. Apple and Phil Francis Carspecken

As the result of Liverpool Council ordering the closure of Croxteth Comprehensive School in 1981, local residents occupied the school and ran it for a year with the aid of volunteer teachers. This study describes the teaching methods and political undercurrents that developed during that time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415035600
• ISBN13: 9780415035606
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher