Anton Polan

Anton Polan

Senior Lecturer in Education

Institute of Education

Contact Details

email: a.polan@worc.ac.uk

tel: 01905 542202


Qualifications
PhD Sociology (Durham)
PGCE Secondary Soc. Sci. (Hull)
BSc. Economics & Politics (Bristol)

Teaching & Research

Teaching Interests

Sociology of Education; Policy Studies; Political Sociology

Research Interests

Authority and Disaffection in Schools; Social Class and Achievement

Professional Bodies

British Educational Research Association

Publications

Books

Lenin and the End of Politics Methuen/University of California Press 1984

Book Chapters

Reflections on industry and education; Reflections on the primary school; Assessing the future: the expanding horizon in Turning Teaching Into Learning ed. D. Fish, West London Press, West London Institute 1988

School: an inevitable democracy? in The Democratic School: School Management and Democratic Practice ed. R. Meighan & K. Harber, Education Now Press London 1989

Refereed Journals

Discipline, justice and authority in the secondary school (forthcoming journal paper)

Emancipation or surveillance: some implications of new forms of assessment, Political Quarterly Jul/Aug 1989

An experiment in Sixth Form democratic participation, Educational Review Apr1989

The student-teacher review process in profiling: an initial investigation into possibilities and limitations, Educational Review Nov1990

Political, moral, and social education: citizenship and biography, The Journal of Moral Education Jan. 1991

Conference Papers

Political Education and Political Judgment American Political Science Association Pacific North West Conference 1991

The National Curriculum and TVEI: the ambiguous rationalization of English education in TVEI and the National Curriculum Exeter University Symposium Papers ed. M. Golby Apr1990

Lenin’s Utopia Leeds University Colloquium on Utopias, Past and Present 1988

External Responsibilities