Transition towards centralization of the British Education Reform and Its Inspiration.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 29 Transition towards centralization of the British Education Reform and Its Inspiration Abstract: Since the 20th century, 80 years, the United Kingdom began a program of the national curriculum as the core of education reform, centralization process. In this tortuous and complicated the reform process as shown in the trend toward centralization of education in British schools, the socio-economic transformation and development of the times in which the initiative undertaken by a policy response. Keywords: transition; United Kingdom; education reform; centralized Since the 1980s, decentralization of education system in the Western countries, the central or federal government’s education authority has been enhanced to some extent, the local education authority is weakened, showing a trend of centralization. Among them, the United Kingdom centralization trend is particularly evident. A transition-oriented reform of English education, the basic background of centralized Britain is a country with a tradition of autonomy, teachers curriculum, teaching materials selection and choice of teaching methods in areas such as a lot of power. In 1944, the Education Act established a central oversight and local management of the school curriculum management system, local education authorities the right to master the school’s personnel, financial power, while entrusting the management of the curriculum the school board, school board curriculum management to turn heads. Therefore, the curriculum management actually rests in the hands of schools, especially principals. In 1945, after a long period of time, the central government management of the curriculum is very loose. Into the 1970s, the capitalist world economic crisis has dealt a blow to Britain, prompting people to reflect and find the reasons why many entrepreneurs, politicians and community organizations have put the blame for educational