Over the last few decades, there has been a growing number of educationalists in many countries who support and promote 'strong' forms of bilingual education.
However, the educationalist's labels of ' participation ' and ' non-participation ' are meaningless to many older people, who see learning as a mainly informal activity and an integral part of their daily lives.
To some educationalists, faculty appointments and the subsequent expectation to conduct educational research was a whole new world and in some cases, a foreign and somewhat daunting one.
It is also common for educationalists to emphasise the importance of pedagogical style and modes of school governance in preparing children for their roles as citizens, or subjects.
There should be more papers from economists, political scientists, anthropologists and educationalists, and from the humanities and the biological and clinical sciences.
Neither the pedagogic debates, the volumes written by the principal educationalists of the time, nor numerous philanthropic initiatives had been able to halt this process.
This seems to me to be a consequence of our present-day social organization about which sociologists, politicians and educationalists should not be unaware.
But, in contrast to the toryism of the educationalists, their agendas were often whiggish.
