Modernising School Governance

Corporate planning and expert handling in state education

Andrew Wilkins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-78747-6 (ISBN)

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Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system. A focus of the book concerns how government and non-government demands for ‘strong governance’ have been translated to mean improved performance management of senior school leaders and greater monitoring and disciplining of governors. This book addresses fundamental questions about the neoliberal logic underpinning these reforms and how governors are being trained and responsibilised in new ways to enhance the integrity of these developments.

Drawing on large-scale research conducted over three years, the book examines the impact of these reforms on the day to day practices of governors and the diminished role of democracy in these contexts. Wilkins also captures the economic and political rationalities shaping the conduct of governors at this time and traces these expressions to wider structural developments linked to depoliticisation, decentralisation and disintermediation.

This book addresses timely and original issues concerning the role of corporate planning and expert handling to state education at a time of increased school autonomy, shrinking local government support/oversight, and tight, centralised accountability. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in disciplines of education, sociology, political science, public policy and management. It will also be of interest to researchers and policy makers from countries with similar or emerging quasi-market education systems.

Andrew Wilkins is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of East London. He is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College (2012–2019), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), co-convenor of the BERA SIG Social Theory and Education, and Associate of the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, University of Glasgow.

Introduction 1 A Genealogical Enquiry 2 Rituals in Truth-making 3 Situated Neo-liberalism 4 Expert Publics 5 Business Ontology 6 Repopulating the Middle

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.6.2016
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
Zusatzinfo	2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-138-78747-7 / 1138787477
ISBN-13	978-1-138-78747-6 / 9781138787476
Zustand	Neuware