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Considering the role of women as educational policy-makers, and in particular focusing on 29 women members of the London School Board, this book examines the link between private lives and public practice in Victorian and Edwardian England. These political activists were among the first women in England to be elected to positions of political responsibility. Key concerns in the book are issues such as gender and power, and gender and welfare

The Local Government Act 2000 established a new set of political arrangements across England and Wales which included, for the first time, a distinct, separate overview and scrutiny function with the statutory duty to 'hold the executive to account'. This paper will explore the potential and limits of the overview and scrutiny function as a mechanism for public accountability in local government. It will be argued that effective processes of public scrutiny (as mechanisms for public accountability) are an essential component of good local governance with the potential to reconnect local citizens and the state within modernised forms of representative democracy. Reflecting current policy debates, it will be suggested that the future role of the local authority, as the democratically elected local tier of government, should be to create the conditions for public accountability in local governance and support officers and members engaged in public scrutiny.

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsements Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- A Note to Readers -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 History Lessons -- 1 The Martin Luther Story -- 2 The Greta Thunberg Story -- 3 The Mahatma Gandhi Story -- 4 The Rosa Parks Story -- Part 2 A Looming Tragedy -- 5 The Dreadful Deed: Matricide -- 6 The Fatal Flaw: Hubris -- 7 The Denial: Six Varieties -- 8 The Present-Day Chorus -- 9 The Unraveling -- Part 3 Can We Change Human Culture and Ourselves? -- 10 Yes, We Can -- 11 Is Human Nature Humancentric? -- 12 Prepared and Counter-Prepared Learning -- 13 Becoming a New Person -- 14 Individual Learning and Cultural Change -- Part 4 Wage Education Not War -- 15 Close the Knowing/Doing Gap -- 16 Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? -- 17 Facts Are Not Enough -- 18 What Do We Do with Miseducation When We Find It? -- 19 Amplify and Converge -- Part 5 Goodbye Hubris, Hello ENVIRONMENTALITY -- 20 Needed: A Paradigm Shift -- 21 Expanding the Definition of "We -- 22 Doing Something Rather Than Nothing -- 23 Acting as One -- Bibliography -- Index.