Scottish Education, Fourth Edition: Referendum

Abstract

The periodic arrival of volumes of Scottish Education provides us with another milestone where we can take a pause by the road along which we have been travelling and reflect upon what we have seen passing and what might lie ahead. Although one milestone may come to look much like another, right from the beginning of this review I must stress that for this fourth volume there are more than 60 new authors with only two unaltered chapters out of a total of 111 over an impressive 1062 pages. Repeat authors display a tendency to radically recast previously appearing papers, so despite the apparent similarity of structure and format from previous volumes, the book is to all intents and purposes, new and fresh and therefore definitely worth purchasing as your standard reference for matters concerning Scottish Education. We have reached a point where reading parallel chapters from successive volumes provides critical historical insights into developments across two decades. The editors comment upon why there are so many new authors, directing their readers to the cull of experience and expertise that has taken place over the

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