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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823948903321

Autore

Maguire Meg <1949-, >

Titolo

How schools do policy : policy enactments in secondary schools / / by Meg Maguire, Stephen J Ball, and Annette Braun with Kate Hoskins and Jane Perryman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-52094-5

0-429-22880-5

1-283-52101-6

9786613833464

0-203-15318-9

1-136-52095-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BallStephen J

BraunAnnette <1973->

Disciplina

379.41

Soggetti

Education and state

Education, Secondary

Educational change

Educational sociology

Education and state - Great Britain

Education, Secondary - Great Britain

Educational change - Great Britain

Educational sociology - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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