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....
Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system. A ...
This volume introduces the histories and traditions that have inspired innovation in thinking and writing about policy making and policy worlds in the field of education. Through a focus on post-positivist epistemologies and anti-foundationalist philosophies, this volume documents some of the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the education sub-field of ‘policy sociology’, also known as ‘sociology of education policy’ or ‘critical policy sociology’. The result is a comprehensive text and navigational tool for studying the application and merit of...
This volume introduces the histories and traditions that have inspired innovation in thinking and writing about policy making and policy worlds in the...
