Competition, accountability and performativity: exploring schizoid neo-liberal ‘equality objectives’ in a UK primary school

doi:10.4324/9781315659138-10

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Competition, accountability and performativity: exploring schizoid neo-liberal ‘equality objectives’ in a UK primary school

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Introduction We are building an Aspiration Nation, my dream for Britain is that opportunity is not an accident of birth, but a birthright . . . as Churchill said: ‘we are for the ladder, let all try their best to climb’.