School Leadership between Community and the State : The Changing Civic Role of Schooling (Palgrave Studies in Global Citizenship Education and Democracy)

Lundie, David

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2023/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 306 p.
• 商品コード 9783030998363

Full Description

This book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the author traces a fundamental shift in the patterns of governance of schools in England in the opening decades of the 21st century. Operating through the logics of public choice economics involving both real markets and quasi-markets, policy reforms have increasingly framed school values, and the value of schooling, in line with a politically determined and nostalgic discourse of 'British values'. This stands in contrast to a previous focus on 'community cohesion' which foregrounded school partnership with the parent community and wider society. Tracing the processes and mid-level actors mediating between government and school leaders, the author identifies processes of recontextualisation through which policy can be reinscribed and resisted.

Contents

Chapter 1. Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance.- Chapter 2. Post-Historical Institutionalism.- Chapter 3. Leadership and Community.- Chapter 4. Schools, Leadership and the Law.- Chapter 5. School Leadership and the Market.- Chapter 6. Leadership and the Political State.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.- Chapter 8. Epilogue—From the Political to the Undifferentiated./