Modernising School Governance: Corporate planning and expert handling in state education (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics)

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Synopsis
Modernising School Governance examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system. A focus of the book concerns how government and non-government demands for ‘strong governance’ have been translated to mean improved performance management of senior school leaders and greater monitoring and disciplining of governors. This book addresses fundamental questions about the neoliberal logic underpinning these reforms and how governors are being trained and responsibilised in new ways to enhance the integrity of these developments. Drawing on large-scale research conducted over three years, the book examines the impact of these reforms on the day to day practices of governors and the diminished role of democracy in these contexts. Wilkins also captures the economic and political rationalities shaping the conduct of governors at this time and traces these expressions to wider structural developments linked to depoliticisation, decentralisation and disintermediation. This book addresses timely and original issues concerning the role of corporate planning and expert handling to state education at a time of increased school autonomy, shrinking local government support/oversight, and tight, centralised accountability. It will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in disciplines of education, sociology, political science, public policy and management. It will also be of interest to researchers and policy makers from countries with similar or emerging quasi-market education systems.
Copyright:
2016

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
172 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317660576
Related ISBNs:
9781138787476, 9781315766485, 9780815360674
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Andrew Wilkins
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Education
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Bookshare Staff
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