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What Are the Proper Purposes of a System of Schooling?
Before one develops anything, one should have a pretty clear idea of its purpose. What is the thing you are building supposed to do? It makes no sense to talk about the structure of something without having in mind, first, … Continue reading
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‘Structure Liberates?’: Making Compliant, Consumable Bodies in Neoliberal Schooling
Mossbourne Community Academy, a celebrated highly disciplinarian secondary school, opened in East London in 2004. Operating under the ethos ‘structure liberates’, it actively seeks to culturally transform its largely ethnic minority student body and create ‘a culture of ambition to … Continue reading
Factories for Learning – Neoliberal Governmentality and Inequality
This book draws upon original research at a celebrated flagship secondary school, to explore how new forms of neoliberal governmentality are reproducing raced, classed and gendered inequalities. Considering the complex narratives of students, teachers and parents, the book examines the … Continue reading
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Distributed Leadership: A Review of Literature
This desk study was undertaken to provide an overview of current writing on distributed leadership. It was intended to investigate the extent to which: • there was a common understanding of the term • writing in the field covered both … Continue reading
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Distributed Leadership and its Impact on Teaching and Learning
Distributed leadership has been the subject of considerable educational research and discourse in recent years. This thesis explores how it is understood in the post primary school context, with particular reference to its impact on teaching and learning. A study … Continue reading
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Distributed Leadership: developing Theory from Practice
Hopes that the transformation of schools lies with exceptional leaders have proved both unrealistic and unsustainable. The idea of leadership as distributed across multiple people and situations has proven to be a more useful framework for understanding the realities of … Continue reading
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Vittra School System – Sweden
At Vittra we express our idea and vision through the promises we make based on the foundation of our educational orientation. These promises clarify in concrete terms the demands we make on ourselves and express what our children, young people … Continue reading
Inequity In America’s Schools
It’s been long suspected that schools serving low-income students receive less money to pay their teachers than those in nearby affluent schools. Now there’s data from the U.S. Department of Education to back that claim up. “The facts are out … Continue reading
Side by Side: On Britain’s School Wars
Nothing is so likely to cause a dinner party to turn violent. In Britain, the question of the type of school parents choose for their children ranks with international terrorism and global warming as a topic that can inflame political … Continue reading
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Shock-Doctrine Schooling in Haiti: Neoliberalism Off the Richter Scale
The truth, however, is that the seismic activity of free-market principles had shattered the education system in Haiti long before January 12, 2010. Some 90 percent of schools in Haiti are private schools and, according to UN statistics, primary school … Continue reading
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