Full Description
This text presents an informative overview of Conservative-led education policy over the last 14 years. The book provides a broad and detailed picture of the developing education landscape in England during this period, highlighting the transformational and sometimes 'radical' reforms that the country has seen.
Crucially, the book draws together contributions from over 40 esteemed education re-searchers working in the UK. The chapters showcase work from a range of experienced and early career researchers, ensuring original, thought-provoking and evidence-informed perspectives as we examine the impact of recent policy and explore how it might develop into the future. Key thematic areas covered include:
Restructuring and governing the system
Teaching policy, practice and professionalism
Confronting the challenges of inclusion and inequality
Steering and transforming curriculum and assessment
This timely collection will interest students at all levels, researchers, education professionals and policymakers. It sheds important light on this tumultuous era for education policy, and will inform those interested in this area for years to come.
Contents
1. Introduction: 2010-2024: an Era of Change for Education Policy in England
Rebecca Morris and Thomas Perry
Section 1 - Restructuring and Governing the System
2. School governance in England from 2010 to 2024: Academies, maintained schools and the changing roles of central and local government
Anne West, David Wolfe and Basma Yaghi
3. Policy Gymnastics: the case of Multi-Academy Trusts
Toby Greany, Eleanor Bernardes and Helen Angell
4. Biopolitics and academisation
Helen Gunter
5. Free schools in England: standards, social justice and policy evolution
Rebecca Morris
6. The grammar school system in England and its potential impacts on educational effectiveness
Binwei Lu and Xin Shao
7. Ofsted inspection policy in England 2010-24: despair and complacency at both extremes of the school performance distribution
Bernardita Munoz Chereau
Section 2 - Teaching Policy, Practice and Professionalism
8. Policy Enactment Theory in ECEC settings: A lens to better understand professional confidence?
Lewis Fogarty and Kate Hoskins
9. The importance of teaching - policy on teaching and pedagogy 2010-2024
Daniel Muijs
10. The Evolution of Initial Teacher Training and Education (ITTE) in England (2010-2024)
Sarah Emmerson
11. Exploring Education Policy and Reform in England (2010-2024) and the Early Career Framework: The unfolding of an education 'market' for teacher development
Tanya Ovenden-Hope and Holly Kirkpatrick
12. Evidence-informed policy and practice: where next?
Steve Higgins
Section 3 - Confronting the Challenges of Inclusion and Inequality
13. The Pupil Premium: a policy that changed the education landscape in England
Sally Riordan
14. Fifteen years of Pupil Premium policy in England
Nadia Siddiqui and Stephen Gorard
15. Tolerating the intolerable: fundamental British values
Umit Yildiz and Vini Lander
16. Project 'Neutrality': Counter-Extremism, Political Impartiality and Schooling
Reza Gholami
17. Challenging the absence of race and racism in understanding the Black achievement gap in schools
Uvanney Maylor
18. The complexity of education policy for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities: issues and prospects in England
Brahm Norwich
19. England's education policy response to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic
Jake Anders
Section 4 - Steering and Transforming Curriculum and Assessment
20. The ecology of curriculum policy: a tale of two curricula... and a more meaningful approach to understanding curriculum
Joseph Smith and Mark Priestley
21. Early childhood education policy in England since 2010: an overview
Michael Jopling, Sally Riordan, and Lesleann Whiteman
22. Parity-of-participation? Children's comments on the Primary National Curriculum and Assessment in England from 2014 and into the future
Eleanore Hargreaves
23. GCSE reform in England: an overview and critical analysis of policy since 2010
Michelle Meadows and Stuart Cadwallader
24. The English Baccalaureate (EBacc): A critical review of the impact of the EBacc and associated curriculum and accountability reforms on schools, students and teachers
Emma Towers, Sharon Gewirtz, Meg Maguire and Eszter Neumann
25. The recurrence of reform in English vocational education: the case of T Levels
Kevin Orr and Rachel Terry
26. Fourteen Years of English Education Policy (2010-2024)
Thomas Perry and Rebecca Morris
