First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Journal of Educational Administration- "In this richly detailed and fascinating book, McCulloch attempts to weave a tapestry around the notion of educational reconstruction and largely of competing ideas and ideologies from the 1940s to the present day."
History of Education- " This is a provocative and stimulating work by a fine historian...it is...a coherent, well-written and sensibly priced volume