Inside the English education lab : critical qualitative and ethnographic perspectives on the academies experiment / edited by Christy Kulz, Kirsty Morrin and Ruth McGinity.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kulz, Christy, editor.

Morrin, Kirsty, editor.

McGinity, Ruth, editor.

Series:

Manchester scholarship online.

Manchester scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--Great Britain.

Educational equalization.

Education and state--Great Britain.

Education and state.

Academies (British public schools).

Education--Standards--Great Britain.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 241 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Inside the English education lab collection has a dual focus It offers a critical examination of the academies programme, and it interrogates methodological practice in education research. Overall, it argues that academies reproduce rather than reform inequalities, and that there is political salience to in-depth, qualitative methodologies.

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

List of abbreviations

Foreword

Introduction - A time and a place: doing critical qualitative and ethnographic work across an academised educational landscape

Part I - 'Privatisation': Positioning policies and publics: academies, governance and agency

Academisation and the law of 'attraction': an ethnographic study of relays, connective strategies and regulated participation

When the MAT moves in: implications for legitimacy in terms of governance and local agency

Part II - 'Practice': Schooling the body and bodies in schooling: practice, strategy and the everyday

Free schools, inclusion and social capital of children with special educational needs and disabilities

The great education 'permanent revolution'? Shape-shifting academies and degrees of change (and 'success')

What 'these kids' need: discipline, misrecognition and resistance in an English academy school

Part III - 'Reflexivity': In the contours and on the margins: re-imagining the academy

Producing the academy school: ethnography, Foucault and the study of policy production

The 'contradictory space' of the entrepreneurial academy: critical ethnography, entrepreneurship education and inequalities

Conclusion - Embedding an educational settlement: coercion, contestation and localised struggles

Afterword - Polyvalent and incoherent: the academies programme and the English educational apparatus

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kulz, Christy Inside the English Education Lab

ISBN:

9781526172839

1526172836

9781526145390

1526145391

OCLC:

1337068251