ABSTRACT
In the final chapter of Working in a Survival School, we reflect on the research conducted and how we drew on aspects of institutional ethnography (IE) to structure our analysis. In attempting to capture the experience of those working and attending a school in survival mode, we make connections across the macro, the translocal, local and micro-local contexts. We reflect on the school as bounded space, subject to various competing forces, locally and translocally, that are influenced by historical, political and economic agendas. In capturing the tensions experienced by the participants, the research makes a contribution to studies of neoliberalism, educational policy, school ethnographies and gendered learner identities.
