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Modernising School Governance

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Modernising School Governance book

Corporate planning and expert handling in state education

Modernising School Governance

DOI link for Modernising School Governance

Modernising School Governance book

Corporate planning and expert handling in state education
ByAndrew Wilkins
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 10 June 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315766485
Pages 188 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315766485
SubjectsEducation, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Wilkins, A. (2016). Modernising School Governance. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315766485

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|21 pages

A genealogical enquiry

chapter 2|19 pages

Rituals in truth-making

chapter 3|20 pages

Situated neo-liberalism

chapter 4|25 pages

Expert publics

chapter 5|24 pages

Business ontology

chapter 6|25 pages

Repopulating the middle

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion

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