Using our re-readings of Margaret Meek Spencer's work and career, we connect her scholarship to our mapping of contemporary changes in knowledge and our investigations of so-called "knowers": those mobilising knowledge to underpin and control professionals' enactment of policy in primary school literacy. Working from the theoretical…

This article reports on a case study investigating the micro-politics of policy enactment in a school in England. The case is sited in the literacy policy of a primary school in challenging circumstances as it joins a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT). Data gathering consisted of interviews with the school headteacher, assistant headteacher, and literacy…