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How schools do policy : policy enactments in secondary schools / by Meg Maguire, Stephen J Ball, and Annette Braun with Kate Hoskins and Jane Perryman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maguire, Meg, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and state.
- Education, Secondary.
- Educational change.
- Educational sociology.
- Education and state--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Education, Secondary--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Educational change--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Educational sociology--Great Britain--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to be 'implemented' by schools. In response to this, a great deal of attention has been given to evaluating 'how well' policies are realised in practice - implemented! Less attention has been paid to understanding how schools actually deal with these multiple, and sometimes contradictory, policy demands; creatively working
- Contents:
- Front Cover; How Schools do Policy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Doing enactments research; 2. Taking context seriously; 3. Doing enactment: People, meanings and policy work; 4. Policy subjects: Constrained creativity and assessment technologies in schools; 5. Policy into practice: Doing behaviour policy in schools; 6. Policy artefacts: Discourses, representations and translations; 7. Towards a theory of enactment: 'The value of hesitation and closer interrogation of utterances of conventional wisdom'; Appendix: Case study schools and interviewees
- NotesReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-52094-5
- 0-429-22880-5
- 1-283-52101-6
- 9786613833464
- 0-203-15318-9
- 1-136-52095-3
- 9780429228803
- OCLC:
- 804661399
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