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New Vocationalism New Vocationalism2000/5/3/2000/P.Covington/2000 With reference to the behaviour objectives associated with life skills training, it is argued that the hidden curriculum has now surfaced as the official curriculum Dennis Gleeson, 1986 Occupationalism can be seen as more precisely reflecting the interests of that fragment of the middle class based in industry and commerce than did the humanist education of professions. Stephen Moore. A bloated public sector, which was strangling the wealth-creating element of the economy. Dan Finn The New Political Agenda In Britain from the middle of the 1970’s, other issues gradually replaced government concern with equality and equality of opportunity. Successive governments showed little interest in adopting policies that attempted to compensate for class inequalities. Interest in gender and ethnic inequalities remained strong and in many new areas, policies were developed to combat these problems. However, many of these were localised, in particular schools whilst central government made no real concerted effort to stop these problems The New Right This signified a rise in the influence of the New Right ideas in education. Some of these ideas resemble functionalist ideas, though in a rather crude form. The Great Debate Although Conservative governments of the 1980’s and 1990’s introduced modifications to the education system, which reflected new priorities, the change in thinking began under the last Labour government of the 1970’s. James Callaghan’s Speech at Ruskin College and a following Green Paper argued It is vital to Britain’s Economic recovery and standard of living that the performance of the manufacturing industry is improved and that the whole range of government policies, including education, contribute as much as possible to improving industrial performance and thereby increasing national wealth. In a period of rising unemployment and the apparent decline