Full Description
Jacqueline Baxter takes the 2014 `Trojan Horse' scandal, in which it was alleged that governors at 25 Birmingham schools were involved in the "Islamisation" of secular state schools, as a focus point to examine the pressures and challenges in the current English education system.
Contents
The Trojan Horse: catastrophe or catalyst for change?;
Media representations of school governance today;
Opening up The Trojan Horse;
Governors today: Identities and perceptions;
Regulating the Governors?;
School Governing in England, a whole new chapter?.