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Changing Headship, Changing Schools: How Management Discourse Gives Rise to the Performative Professionalism in England (1980s-2010s)
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Tseng, Chun-Ying – Journal of Education Policy, 2015
This paper focuses on the discursive shifts of emphasis of school headship since the 1980s in England, and the ways in which the repositioning of head teachers has gradually transformed professional work and relationships in schools via a discourse of management. Specifically, the paper identifies a "trilogy of school headship in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, School Administration, Educational Policy
Teachers' Autonomy
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Parker, Gemma – Research in Education, 2015
This literature review begins by considering the concept of autonomy. The focus narrows to teacher autonomy specifically and a range of conceptualisations are summarised. Its influences and impact are discussed and the role which teacher autonomy plays in the wider issue of teacher professionalism is addressed. Central influences, including the UK…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Teachers, Professionalism, Foreign Countries
School Leadership and Management in England: The Paradox of Simultaneous Centralisation and Decentralisation
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Bush, Tony – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2016
Effective leadership and management are increasingly recognised as vital components of successful schooling. This paper examines how they are practiced in England, where there is a high degree of centralization, notably in respect of finance and staffing, but within a tightly constrained curriculum and inspection framework. The paper discusses…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Instructional Leadership, Administrative Organization, Educational Improvement
Decline and Fall: Are State Schools and Universities on the Point of Collapse?
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Brighouse, Tim – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2012
This contribution is an edited version of the "Alumni Lecture" organised by the Department of Education of the University of Oxford at Lady Margaret Hall on 15th September 2011. The article reviews the drift towards the centralisation of power in the way the schooling system is run, the conflict between a desire for equity in education…
Descriptors: State Schools, Equal Education, Local Government, Universities
Quality Assurance, School Self-Management and the Contradictions of Control.
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Johnston, John – European Journal of Education, 1992
This article examines effects of the 1988 Education Reform Act in the United Kingdom, especially the decline in participative decision making by teachers, increased centralization of control, and the introduction of a national curriculum. The paper also discusses the historical relationship between professional autonomy for teachers and control of…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Centralization, Educational Change, Educational History
Teachers and Their Ideologies As Mediators of Change. Primary Assessment, Curriculum and Experience: A Study of Educational Change under the National Curriculum.
Osborn, Marilyn; And Others – 1994
This paper reports on findings from a 1990-93 PACE (Primary Assessment, Curriculum and Experience) study concerning the impact of the United Kingdom's Education Reform Act on teachers' professional perspectives and responses to change. Data are drawn from interviews with a national sample of 88 teachers and more intensive classroom study…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Legislation