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Download or read book The Struggle for the General Teaching Council written by Richard Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the history of the struggle to promote a self-governing body for the teaching profession from its early problems at the start of the twentieth century right through to the establishment of the General Teaching Council of England in 2000. It also explores the interest groups and policy makers who impeded its achievement and the attitude of teacher unions and the teachers themselves to the establishment of such a body. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers and historians, as well as postgraduate students.