School Leadership Between Community and the State: The Changing Civic Role of Schooling (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030998332)

This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the author traces a fundamental shift in the patterns of governance of schools in England in the opening decades of the 21st century. Operating through the logics of public choice economics involving both real markets and quasi-markets, policy reforms have increasingly framed school values, and the value of schooling, in line with a politically determined and nostalgic discourse of 'British values'. This stands in contrast to a previous focus on 'community cohesion' which foregrounded school partnership with the parent community and wider society. Tracing the processes and mid-level actors mediating between government and school leaders, the author identifies processes of recontextualisation through which policy can be reinscribed and resisted.


Author: David Lundie
ISBN-10: 3030998339
ISBN-13: 9783030998332
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2022
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d