Schooling in a Democracy : Returning Education to the Public Service

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COVID-19 has widened inequalities in schools and left the future uncertain. Richard Riddell argues that the increasingly narrow focus of education governance has made new thinking impossible and has degraded public life. Nevertheless, he highlights new possibilities for democratic behaviour and the...

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Autor principal: Riddell, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Citizenship > Study and teaching.
Democracy and education.
Education and state.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Schooling in a Democracy: Returning Education to the Public Service
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • 1 The emptiness of English public policy
  • English schools policy emerging from a pandemic: the argument
  • 'Academisation' and its effects
  • Dismantling governance and introducing a more secretive style
  • The results of policy making of a certain sort
  • The poverty of policy and policy making: the argument
  • The need to understand context: restating the need for the local
  • How the book is organised
  • 2 Where it all begins: the tasks for Education and others
  • The context for Education: England's structure before and after the pandemic
  • Detailed needs and consequences
  • Access to schooling during the first waves of the pandemic
  • Policy-driven progress in schools for disadvantaged students
  • Post pandemic
  • 3 Governance change in England
  • Introduction: The polity around the school
  • The multi-faceted reduction of local authorities and reform of the 'middle tier'
  • Academisation after 2010
  • What was left?
  • Re-reforming the middle tier more broadly
  • 4 Middle tier functioning, standards, places and school ecosystems
  • Introduction
  • Arrangements for reviewing and raising school standards
  • Nationally directed rapid change to local ecosystems
  • The development of new 'good' school places
  • 'Middle tier' shape shifting and its effects on local schools ecosystems
  • 5 But society won't wait: the communities around the school and the role of local government
  • Introduction
  • Setting the scene: future possibilities of community-centred work
  • Local government possibilities
  • Schooling and local authorities currently
  • The challenges for councils' overview and leadership in the 2020s
  • 6 More muddle: English Education's unstable assemblage
  • The centralised drive of policy
  • Tales of limited power, interest, skills and policy paralysis at the top
  • The shifting policy market
  • more muddle
  • How policy making changed
  • Attempts to de-centralise
  • Ofsted and its effects
  • Summary reflections on the complexities of the wider Educational model
  • 7 Wider parallels: limitations at the top
  • Introduction
  • Private sector parallels
  • Deliberate absences of structure
  • The paradoxes of wider English centralisation
  • 8 The construction of central governments that find it all too difficult
  • Introduction: The paradoxes of expectations
  • The weakening of national officialdom
  • How senior officials work and see themselves
  • Easing expertise and knowledge out of decision making
  • Not understanding the social basis for policy compromises implementation
  • The mishandling of COVID-19: failures of state
  • Failures of state: lessons for governance
  • 9 Re-democratising and re-politicising
  • Introduction
  • Contradictions in policy and the behaviours that result

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